Complex sentence: Antoine Ignace Melling (1763--1831) was a painter, architect and voyager who is counted among the "Levantine Artists" for his famous vendute of Constantinople where he lived for 18 years.
Split into simpler sentences: Antoine Ignace Melling (1763--1831) was a painter, architect and voyager who is counted among the "Levantine Artists". He is famous for his vendute of Constantinople, a town where he lived for 18 years.