1598 - 1680
Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, US English US: , Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. As one scholar has commented, "What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful...." In addition, he was a painter (mostly small canvases in oil) and a man of the theater: he wrote, directed and acted in plays (mostly Carnival satires), for which he designed stage sets and theatrical machinery. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gian Lorenzo Bernini has received more than 1,796,076 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Gian Lorenzo Bernini is the 3rd most popular architect (up from 4th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Italy (up from 47th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Architect.
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Among architects, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 3 out of 424. Before him are Antoni Gaudí and Le Corbusier. After him are Mimar Sinan, Vitruvius, Imhotep, Filippo Brunelleschi, Andrea Palladio, Donato Bramante, Albert Speer, Leon Battista Alberti, and Walter Gropius.
1852 - 1926
HPI: 87.73
Rank: 1
1887 - 1965
HPI: 87.33
Rank: 2
1598 - 1680
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 3
1490 - 1588
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 4
75 BC - 15 BC
HPI: 84.28
Rank: 5
2800 BC - 2700 BC
HPI: 84.00
Rank: 6
1377 - 1446
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 7
1508 - 1580
HPI: 81.85
Rank: 8
1443 - 1514
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 9
1905 - 1981
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 10
1404 - 1472
HPI: 81.48
Rank: 11
1883 - 1969
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1598, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 1. After him are Francisco de Zurbarán, Bonaventura Cavalieri, François Mansart, Eleonora Gonzaga, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Maarten Tromp, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Johann Crüger, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Georg Stiernhielm, and Chen Hongshou. Among people deceased in 1680, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 1. After him are Shivaji, François de La Rochefoucauld, Athanasius Kircher, Nicolas Fouquet, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Willem Claesz. Heda, Jan Swammerdam, La Voisin, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, John George II, Elector of Saxony, and John Eudes.
1598 - 1680
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 1
1598 - 1664
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 2
1598 - 1647
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 3
1598 - 1666
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 4
1598 - 1655
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 5
1598 - 1671
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 6
1598 - 1653
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 7
1598 - 1654
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 8
1598 - 1662
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 9
1598 - 1662
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 10
1598 - 1672
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 11
1598 - 1652
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 12
1598 - 1680
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 1
1627 - 1680
HPI: 79.64
Rank: 2
1613 - 1680
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 3
1602 - 1680
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 4
1615 - 1680
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 5
1609 - 1680
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 6
1594 - 1680
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 7
1637 - 1680
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 8
1640 - 1680
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 9
1617 - 1680
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 10
1613 - 1680
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 11
1601 - 1680
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 46 out of 4,088. Before him are Florence Nightingale (1820), Pope John Paul I (1912), Catherine de' Medici (1519), Pope Pius XII (1876), Giacomo Puccini (1858), and Mark Antony (-83). After him are Gioachino Rossini (1792), Marcus Licinius Crassus (-115), Maria Montessori (1870), Vespasian (9), Pope Gregory I (540), and Parmenides (-501).
1820 - 1910
HPI: 85.64
Rank: 40
1912 - 1978
HPI: 85.55
Rank: 41
1519 - 1589
HPI: 85.43
Rank: 42
1876 - 1958
HPI: 85.39
Rank: 43
1858 - 1924
HPI: 85.34
Rank: 44
83 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 85.10
Rank: 45
1598 - 1680
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 46
1792 - 1868
HPI: 85.00
Rank: 47
115 BC - 53 BC
HPI: 84.86
Rank: 48
1870 - 1952
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 49
9 - 79
HPI: 84.64
Rank: 50
540 - 604
HPI: 84.62
Rank: 51
501 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 52
Among architects born in Italy, Gian Lorenzo Bernini ranks 1. After him are Vitruvius (-75), Filippo Brunelleschi (1377), Andrea Palladio (1508), Donato Bramante (1443), Leon Battista Alberti (1404), Renzo Piano (1937), Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507), Michelozzo (1396), Giacomo della Porta (1533), Richard Rogers (1933), and Aldo Rossi (1931).
1598 - 1680
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 1
75 BC - 15 BC
HPI: 84.28
Rank: 2
1377 - 1446
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 3
1508 - 1580
HPI: 81.85
Rank: 4
1443 - 1514
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 5
1404 - 1472
HPI: 81.48
Rank: 6
1937 - Present
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 7
1507 - 1573
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 8
1396 - 1472
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 9
1533 - 1602
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 10
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 11
1931 - 1997
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 12