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Canaletto

1697 - 1768

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Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (Italian: [kanaˈletto]), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Painter of cityscapes or vedute, of Venice, Rome, and London, he also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clearcut. He was further an important printmaker using the etching technique. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Canaletto has received more than 962,286 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Canaletto is the 83rd most popular painter (up from 100th in 2019), the 274th most popular biography from Italy (up from 337th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Italian Painter.

Canaletto is most famous for his paintings of Venice.

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  • 76.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Canaletto ranks 83 out of 2,023. Before him are Gustave Doré, Diego Rivera, François Boucher, Alfred Sisley, Jackson Pollock, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. After him are Pietro Perugino, Berthe Morisot, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Honoré Daumier, Duccio, and Mary Cassatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1697, Canaletto ranks 1. After him are Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, William Hogarth, Johann Joachim Quantz, Jean-Marie Leclair, Antoine François Prévost, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Mahmud Hotak, Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, Faustina Bordoni, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, and Nicola Salvi. Among people deceased in 1768, Canaletto ranks 2. Before him is Marie Leszczyńska. After him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Laurence Sterne, Nicola Porpora, Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Canaletto ranks 274 out of 5,161. Before him are Umberto II of Italy (1904), Pope Honorius II (1100), Pertinax (126), Pope Lucius III (1110), Juvenal (50), and Pope Siricius (334). After him are Pietro Perugino (1446), Pope Innocent II (1100), Farinelli (1705), Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (-700), Pope Leo III (750), and Yves Montand (1921).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Canaletto ranks 23. Before him are Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Giovanni Bellini (1430), Piero della Francesca (1415), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), and Cimabue (1240). After him are Pietro Perugino (1446), Duccio (1255), Paolo Uccello (1475), Antonio da Correggio (1489), Lisa del Giocondo (1479), and Filippo Lippi (1406).

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