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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 6,167,841 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Caravaggio is the 13th most popular painter (down from 11th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 20th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Painter.

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

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 84.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Caravaggio ranks 13 out of 1,421. Before him are Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens, Albrecht Dürer, and Edvard Munch. After him are Francisco Goya, Sandro Botticelli, Diego Velázquez, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Paul Gauguin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1571, Caravaggio ranks 2. Before him is Johannes Kepler. After him are Abbas the Great, Hasekura Tsunenaga, Michael Praetorius, Emperor Go-Yōzei, Mulla Sadra, Thomas Mun, Frederick de Houtman, 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, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, Anna of Sweden, and Hasegawa Tōhaku.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Caravaggio ranks 22 out of 4,668. Before him are Cicero (-106), Virgil (-70), Commodus (161), Giordano Bruno (1548), Francis of Assisi (1182), and Amerigo Vespucci (1454). After him are Nero (37), Ovid (-43), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Marcus Aurelius (121), Petrarch (1304), and Caligula (12).

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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), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Giotto (1267), Tintoretto (1518), Masaccio (1401), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), and Andrea del Verrocchio (1435).

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