Un povestitor în acuarelă − pictorul călător Luigi Mayer
A watercolor storyteller − the traveling painter Luigi Mayer

Summary/Abstract: Luigi Mayer (1755–1803) was an artist who travelled to the Orient in the last decades of the 18th century. A watercolour painter and drawer, he is known for accurate views made while he was the official painter of Ferdinand IV, King of Naples and the Two Sicilies (1751–1825), Ignazio Paterno Castello (1719–1786), Prince of Biscari, Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli (1727–1792), Prince of Torremuzza and especially of Sir Robert Ainslie, the British ambassador at Constantinople (1730–1794). Luigi Mayer is the first artist who faithfully represented fragments of daily life in rural and urban Romania. In all his views he paid great attention not only to architectural elements of the represented buildings, but also to the local occupations,clothes and details characteristic to the inhabitants and the places he went through. The artist depicted scenes of daily life of ordinary people, as well as of the representatives of the ruling classes.

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