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Anthony Blunt

1907 - 1983

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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy. Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. His 1967 monograph on the French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin is still widely regarded as a watershed book in art history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Blunt has received more than 4,505,848 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Anthony Blunt is the 121st most popular historian (up from 134th in 2019), the 1,382nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,598th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Historian.

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  • 23

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  • 3.60

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  • 3.17

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Anthony Blunt ranks 121 out of 339. Before him are C. Northcote Parkinson, Peter Burke, Richard Sennett, Golo Mann, François Furet, and Árni Magnússon. After him are Evagrius Scholasticus, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Pierre Nora, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, Richard Pipes, and John Kinnamos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Anthony Blunt ranks 96. Before him are Jan Patočka, Antonín Puč, Sisavang Vatthana, Pavel Sudoplatov, Johann Trollmann, and Hans Martin Sutermeister. After him are Jean Hyppolite, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sebastian Haffner, Heinz Brandt, Shiro Teshima, and Pedro Arrupe. Among people deceased in 1983, Anthony Blunt ranks 56. Before him are Walther Nehring, William Walton, Norma Shearer, Igor Markevitch, Ralph Richardson, and Florence Owens Thompson. After him are Karen Carpenter, László Budai, Benigno Aquino Jr., Piero Sraffa, Vladimir Gelfand, and Ross Macdonald.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Blunt ranks 1,382 out of 7,765. Before him are Anthony Daniels (1946), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), Robert Pattinson (1986), Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), and Martin Gore (1961). After him are Herbert Pitman (1877), Beau Brummell (1778), John Wilkins (1614), Charles Rolls (1877), Thomas Wyatt (1503), and Ed Miliband (1969).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Anthony Blunt ranks 8. Before him are Bede (672), Edward Gibbon (1737), Bernard Lewis (1916), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), and Peter Burke (1937). After him are Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), Norman Davies (1939), E. P. Thompson (1924), Ian Kershaw (1943), Arnold Toynbee (1852), and Steven Runciman (1903).

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