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Ambrosius Benson

1500 - 1550

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Ambrosius Benson (c. 1495/1500, in Ferrara or Milan – 1550, in Flanders) was an Italian painter who became a part of the Northern Renaissance. While many surviving paintings have been attributed, there is very little known of him from records, and he tended not to sign his work. He is believed to have produced mainly religious art, but also painted portraits on commission. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ambrosius Benson has received more than 60,359 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ambrosius Benson is the 1,083rd most popular painter (down from 833rd in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ambrosius Benson ranks 1,083 out of 2,023Before him are Romaine Brooks, Moretto da Brescia, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Charles Joshua Chaplin, and Christiane Kubrick. After him are Xu Wei, Adolf Ziegler, François-Hubert Drouais, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Carlo Cignani, and Antiphilus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Ambrosius Benson ranks 38Before him are Luis de Milán, Francisco de Bobadilla, Sebald Beham, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Nuno Tristão, and Jacob Hutter. After him are Luis de Narváez, Rum Mehmed Pasha, Georg Pencz, Robert de Nola, Pedro Reinel, and Ligier Richier. Among people deceased in 1550, Ambrosius Benson ranks 16Before him are Jón Arason, Gian Giorgio Trissino, Pir Sultan Abdal, Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, Sebald Beham, and Isabel Moctezuma. After him are Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Georg Pencz, and John Major.

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