| LC control no. | n 87150521 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mayer, Luigi |
| Variant(s) | Mayer, Ludwig |
| Associated country | Italy |
| Associated place | Turkey Egypt Greece Balkan Peninsula |
| Birth date | 1755 |
| Death date | 1803 |
| Field of activity | Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Pictorial works Landscape painting |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Painters |
| Found in | nuc87-26260: His A grand tour in the Ottoman Empire, 1963 (hdg. on MH-FA rept.: Mayer, Luigi, ca. 1755-1803; usage: Luigi Mayer (circa 1755-1803)) LC data base, 12/14/87 (hdg.: Mayer, Luigi) Wikipedia, March 5, 2019 (Luigi Mayer; born 1755 Italy; died 1803; Italian-German artist, one of the earliest and most important late 18th-century European painters of the Ottoman Empire; traveled through the empire between 1776 and 1794; known for sketches and paintings of panoramic landscapes of ancient sites from the Balkans to the Greek Islands, Turkey and Egypt; close friend of Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador to Turkey 1776-1792, who commissioned the bulk of his paintings and drawings; Ainslie's collection of Mayer's work was later presented to the British Museum) |
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