Carlo Naya
Illustration — The street scribe, c. 1865 • Illustration — Venice - Canal Grande regatta Carlo Naya (1816 in Tronzano Vercellese1882 in Venice) was an Italian photographer known for his pictures of Venice including its works of art and views of the city for a collaborative volume in 1866. He also documented the restoration of Giotto's frescoes at the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.
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Carlo Naya
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- Born
- 1816 · Tronzano Vercellese.
- Died
- 1882 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy · Kingdom of Sardinia
- Occupation
- photographer · artist
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — The street scribe, c. 1865 • Illustration — Venice - Canal Grande regatta Carlo Naya (1816 in Tronzano Vercellese1882 in Venice) was an Italian photographer known for his pictures of Venice including its works of art and views of the city for a collaborative volume in 1866. He also documented the restoration of Giotto's frescoes at the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.
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Naya was born in Tronzano di Vercelli in 1816 and studied law at the University of Pisa. An inheritance allowed him to travel to major cities in Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. He was advertising his services as portrait photographer in Istanbul in 1845, and opened his studio in Venice in 1857. He sold his work through photographer and optician Carlo Ponti. Following Naya's death in 1882, his studio was run by his wife, then by her second husband. In 1918, it was closed and publisher Osvaldo Böhm bought most of Naya's archive.
The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Work by Carlo Naya is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum in Warsaw, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Fototeca Berenson.
Venice: Saint Mark's Looking toward San Giorgio Maggiore, in Moonlight, c. 1870, by Carlo Naya
Carlo Naya · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Dudley P. Allen Fund
Chioggia, Under the Marina, c. 1870, by Carlo Naya
Carlo Naya · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Henry H. Hawley
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1816
Carlo Naya born at Tronzano Vercellese.
1882
Carlo Naya died at Venice.
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Tronzano Vercellese.
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