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Amedeo Modigliani

1884 - 1920

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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (US: ; Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought-after. Modigliani spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amedeo Modigliani has received more than 3,405,581 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Amedeo Modigliani is the 42nd most popular painter (down from 34th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Italy (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Painter.

Amedeo Modigliani is a famous Italian painter who was born in 1884 and died in 1920. He is most famous for his portraits of women and his nudes.

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Among painters, Amedeo Modigliani ranks 42 out of 2,023. Before him are Giotto, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Masaccio, Gustave Courbet, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. After him are Tintoretto, Nicolas Poussin, Anthony van Dyck, Paolo Veronese, Andrea del Verrocchio, and J. M. W. Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Amedeo Modigliani ranks 3. Before him are Eleanor Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. After him are Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, Hideki Tojo, Bronisław Malinowski, Casimir Funk, Édouard Daladier, Anton Drexler, and Max Brod. Among people deceased in 1920, Amedeo Modigliani ranks 2. Before him is Max Weber. After him are Wilhelm Wundt, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Peter Carl Fabergé, Eugénie de Montijo, Anders Zorn, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander of Greece, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Robert Peary, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Amedeo Modigliani ranks 99 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Sixtus IV (1414), Antonio Stradivari (1644), Pope Paul VI (1897), Toto Cutugno (1943), Bud Spencer (1929), and Pope Leo X (1475). After him are Domitian (51), Pope Pius III (1439), Pope Gregory VII (1020), Tintoretto (1518), Marcus Licinius Crassus (-115), and Pliny the Elder (23).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Amedeo Modigliani ranks 9. Before him are Caravaggio (1571), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Titian (1488), Donatello (1386), Giotto (1267), and Masaccio (1401). After him are Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Andrea Mantegna (1431), and Fra Angelico (1400).

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