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Giacomo Ceruti

1698 - 1767

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Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (13 October 1698 – 28 August 1767) was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy in Milan, Brescia, and Venice. He acquired the nickname Pitocchetto (the little beggar) for his many paintings of peasants dressed in rags. He was born in Milan, but worked primarily in Brescia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giacomo Ceruti has received more than 44,707 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Giacomo Ceruti is the 1,389th most popular painter (down from 1,172nd in 2019), the 3,049th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,700th in 2019) and the 247th most popular Italian Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 1,389 out of 2,023. Before him are Aleksandr Deyneka, Charb, Alexander Bogomazov, Ellsworth Kelly, A. R. Penck, and Joseph von Führich. After him are Edward Robert Hughes, Adolph Gottlieb, Ludwig Emil Grimm, Vilhelms Purvītis, Virgil Solis, and Jesús Rafael Soto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 17. Before him are Jean Calas, Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Pyotr Saltykov, and François Francoeur. After him are George Browne, Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Prokop Diviš, Henry Baker, and Giambattista Lolli. Among people deceased in 1767, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 14. Before him are Étienne de Silhouette, Johann Schobert, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, Ekkathat, Emer de Vattel, and Firmin Abauzit. After him are Charles Townshend, Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov, Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 3,049 out of 5,161. Before him are Pupi Avati (1938), Ercole Dembowski (1812), Mario Pizziolo (1909), Vasco Pratolini (1913), Mantovani (1905), and Errico Petrella (1813). After him are Giuseppe Versaldi (1943), Domitia (null), Giovanni Galli (1958), Alessandro Tassoni (1565), Lorenzo Priuli (1489), and Francesco Araja (1709).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 247. Before him are Francesco Zuccarelli (1702), Luca Carlevarijs (1663), Domenico Tintoretto (1560), Giottino (1324), Vitale da Bologna (1289), and Daniele Crespi (1598). After him are Giusto de' Menabuoi (1330), Federico Zandomeneghi (1841), Giulia Lama (1681), Francesco Pesellino (1422), Romanino (1485), and Francesco Squarcione (1397).

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