Giuseppe Levati was an Italian

Italy

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 painter and designer of the late-Baroque

Baroque

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 and Neoclassicism

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 period.

He was born at Concorezzo

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, near Milan

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. After initially working as a decorator, he specialized as an architectural landscape painter, attracted especially the perspectives of Bárbaro and Giampietro Zanotti

Giampietro Zanotti

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. In 1802 he was elected director of the school of perspective at Milan

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. He executed architectural subjects and landscapes (vedute). He helped decorate the house of the Marquis Litta at Lainate

Lainate

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; the residence of Count Borromeo

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, the archducal palace at Milan, and the palace at Monza

Monza

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. One of his pupils was Francesco Durelli.