SCULPTOR

Giambologna

1529 - 1608

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Giambologna (1529 – 13 August 1608), also known as Jean de Boulogne (French), Jehan Boulongne (Flemish) and Giovanni da Bologna (Italian), was the last significant Italian Renaissance sculptor, with a large workshop producing large and small works in bronze and marble in a late Mannerist style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giambologna has received more than 382,018 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Giambologna is the 15th most popular sculptor (up from 17th in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from France (up from 501st in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Sculptor.

Giambologna is most famous for his bronze statue of Neptune, which is located in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Giambologna ranks 15 out of 258. Before him are Alberto Giacometti, Lysippos, Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and Constantin Brâncuși. After him are Scopas, Henry Moore, Nicola Pisano, Marie Tussaud, Jacopo Sansovino, and Luca della Robbia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1529, Giambologna ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Franciscus Patricius, John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony, Anna of Hesse, Taddeo Zuccari, Anthony Jenkinson, Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Raphael Holinshed. Among people deceased in 1608, Giambologna ranks 2. Before him is John Dee. After him are Seonjo of Joseon, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, Andrew Avellino, Marie Eleonore of Cleves, Ğazı II Giray, Sigismund Rákóczi, and Bernardo Buontalenti.

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In France

Among people born in France, Giambologna ranks 426 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Fernand Léger (1881), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Marc Bloch (1886), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), and Pierre Gassendi (1592). After him are Eugène François Vidocq (1775), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Alfred Binet (1857), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Odilon Redon (1840), and André Le Nôtre (1613).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Giambologna ranks 4. Before him are Auguste Rodin (1840), Camille Claudel (1864), and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834). After him are Marie Tussaud (1761), Paul Landowski (1875), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), Louise Bourgeois (1911), François Rude (1784), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).

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