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Caravaggio

1571 - 1610

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; , US: ; Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da (k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caravaggio has received more than 7,073,660 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Caravaggio is the 12th most popular painter (up from 13th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Italy and the 3rd most popular Italian Painter.

Caravaggio is most famous for his painting "The Calling of Saint Matthew."

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 86.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 97

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Caravaggio ranks 12 out of 2,023. Before him are Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Albrecht Dürer, Edvard Munch, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frida Kahlo. After him are Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Sandro Botticelli, and El Greco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1571, Caravaggio ranks 2. Before him is Johannes Kepler. After him are Abbas the Great, Frederick de Houtman, Hasekura Tsunenaga, Emperor Go-Yōzei, Michael Praetorius, Thomas Mun, Mulla Sadra, Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, Willem Blaeu, and Charles, Duke of Guise. Among people deceased in 1610, Caravaggio ranks 1. After him are Henry IV of France, Matteo Ricci, Ludolph van Ceulen, François Ravaillac, Honda Tadakatsu, Adam Elsheimer, False Dmitry II, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, Anna of Sweden, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, and Hasegawa Tōhaku.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Caravaggio ranks 22 out of 5,161. Before him are Benito Mussolini (1883), Cicero (-106), Giordano Bruno (1548), Virgil (-70), Francis of Assisi (1182), and Nero (37). After him are Petrarch (1304), Amerigo Vespucci (1454), Ovid (-43), Marcus Aurelius (121), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), and Sandro Botticelli (1445).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Caravaggio ranks 3. Before him are Michelangelo (1475), and Raphael (1483). After him are Sandro Botticelli (1445), Titian (1488), Donatello (1386), Giotto (1267), Masaccio (1401), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Andrea del Verrocchio (1435).

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