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Giorgio Morandi

1890 - 1964

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Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes—their quiet, meditative quality reflecting the artist's rejection of the tumult of modern life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giorgio Morandi has received more than 622,560 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Giorgio Morandi is the 264th most popular painter (down from 206th in 2019), the 870th most popular biography from Italy (down from 701st in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Italian Painter.

Giorgio Morandi is most famous for his still lifes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giorgio Morandi ranks 264 out of 2,023. Before him are Kees van Dongen, August Macke, Henri Fantin-Latour, Antoni Tàpies, Francesco Hayez, and Franz Xaver Winterhalter. After him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Rosalba Carriera, Guercino, Jan van Goyen, Alessandro Allori, and Pietro Lorenzetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Giorgio Morandi ranks 30. Before him are Franz Werfel, Kurt Student, Michael Collins, Bohuslav Martinů, Maria Goretti, and Victor Lustig. After him are Hermann Joseph Muller, Karl Harrer, Rachele Mussolini, Eduard Dietl, Hans-Valentin Hube, and Jaroslav Heyrovský. Among people deceased in 1964, Giorgio Morandi ranks 21. Before him are Palmiro Togliatti, Gerrit Rietveld, Karl Polanyi, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Otto Grotewohl, and Plaek Phibunsongkhram. After him are Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Alexandre Koyré, Alexander Archipenko, Emilio Aguinaldo, Otto Wille Kuusinen, and Ernst Kretschmer.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giorgio Morandi ranks 870 out of 5,161. Before him are Scholastica (480), Pupienus (170), Luciano Berio (1925), Francesco Hayez (1791), Veronica Franco (1546), and Lentulus Batiatus (-200). After him are Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484), Alessandro Del Piero (1974), Francesco Guicciardini (1483), Emilio Salgari (1862), Rosalba Carriera (1673), and Guercino (1591).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giorgio Morandi ranks 73. Before him are Andrea del Castagno (1420), Giacomo Balla (1871), Federico Barocci (1535), Salvator Rosa (1615), Gentile da Fabriano (1370), and Francesco Hayez (1791). After him are Rosalba Carriera (1673), Guercino (1591), Alessandro Allori (1535), Pietro Lorenzetti (1280), Zeuxis (-500), and Baldassare Peruzzi (1481).

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