PAINTER

Andrea Mantegna

1431 - 1506

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Andrea Mantegna (UK: , US: ; Italian: [anˈdrɛːa manˈteɲɲa]; c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrea Mantegna has received more than 738,330 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Andrea Mantegna is the 51st most popular painter (up from 75th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Italy (up from 252nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Painter.

Andrea Mantegna is most famous for his frescoes and paintings of religious subjects.

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  • 75.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Andrea Mantegna ranks 51 out of 2,023. Before him are Anthony van Dyck, Paolo Veronese, Andrea del Verrocchio, J. M. W. Turner, Paul Klee, and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. After him are Georges Braque, Fra Angelico, Caspar David Friedrich, Camille Pissarro, Giorgione, and Artemisia Gentileschi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1431, Andrea Mantegna ranks 4. Before him are Vlad the Impaler, Pope Alexander VI, and François Villon. After him are Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Ladislaus Hunyadi, Çiçek Hatun, Jasper Tudor, Borommatrailokkanat, John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch, and John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu. Among people deceased in 1506, Andrea Mantegna ranks 2. Before him is Christopher Columbus. After him are Philip I of Castile, Yeonsangun of Joseon, Alexander Jagiellon, Anne of Foix-Candale, Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Sesshū Tōyō, Alexander Agricola, Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu, Sancha of Aragon, and João I of Kongo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Andrea Mantegna ranks 151 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Formosus (816), Plautus (-254), Luigi Galvani (1737), Pope Clement VIII (1536), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), and Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869). After him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Pope Pius VI (1717), Leon Battista Alberti (1404), Cato the Elder (-243), Galba (-3), and Pope Leo XI (1535).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Andrea Mantegna ranks 14. Before him are Masaccio (1401), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526). After him are Fra Angelico (1400), Giorgione (1478), Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Giovanni Bellini (1430), and Piero della Francesca (1415).

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