PAINTER

Donatello

1386 - 1466

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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello (English: ; Italian: [donaˈtɛllo]), was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture. He spent time in other cities, where he worked on commissions and taught others; his periods in Rome, Padua, and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy the techniques he had developed in the course of a long and productive career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donatello has received more than 3,397,172 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2019). Donatello is the 24th most popular painter (down from 21st in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 38th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Painter.

Donatello is most famous for his bronze sculpture of David.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 80.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 100

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Donatello ranks 24 out of 2,023. Before him are El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Paul Gauguin, Piet Mondrian, Titian, and Gustav Klimt. After him are Eugène Delacroix, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Édouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Hieronymus Bosch, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1386, Donatello ranks 1. After him are Mehmed I, Henry V of England, John of Capistrano, Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria, An-Nasir Faraj, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Ambrose Traversari, and Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1466, Donatello ranks 1. After him are Francesco I Sforza, Hacı I Giray, Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, Isabel of Barcelos, Peter, Constable of Portugal, Johann Fust, Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves, and Isotta Nogarola.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Donatello ranks 43 out of 5,161. Before him are Titian (1488), Lorenzo de' Medici (1449), Silvio Berlusconi (1936), Pontius Pilate (-12), Pope John Paul I (1912), and Tiberius (-42). After him are Florence Nightingale (1820), Empedocles (-490), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Pope Pius IX (1792), and Pope John XXIII (1881).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Donatello ranks 6. Before him are Michelangelo (1475), Raphael (1483), Caravaggio (1571), Sandro Botticelli (1445), and Titian (1488). After him are Giotto (1267), Masaccio (1401), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Andrea del Verrocchio (1435).

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