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Giorgione

1478 - 1510

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Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (Venetian: Zorzi; 1477–78 or 1473–74 – 17 September 1510), known as Giorgione (UK: JOR-jee-OH-nay, -⁠nee, US: jor-JOH-nee; Italian: [dʒorˈdʒoːne]; Venetian: Zorzon [zoɾˈzoŋ]), was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are firmly attributed to him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giorgione has received more than 639,394 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Giorgione is the 56th most popular painter (up from 61st in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 177th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Painter.

Giorgione is most famous for his painting "The Tempest" because it is one of the first paintings to use a single vanishing point.

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  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giorgione ranks 56 out of 2,023. Before him are Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Andrea Mantegna, Georges Braque, Fra Angelico, Caspar David Friedrich, and Camille Pissarro. After him are Artemisia Gentileschi, Jean-François Millet, Egon Schiele, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Kazimir Malevich, and Théodore Géricault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Giorgione ranks 5. Before him are Pope Clement VII, Hayreddin Barbarossa, Thomas More, and Francisco Pizarro. After him are Philip I of Castile, Baldassare Castiglione, John, Prince of Asturias, Jan Gossaert, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hatuey, and Sancha of Aragon. Among people deceased in 1510, Giorgione ranks 2. Before him is Sandro Botticelli. After him are Muhammad Shaybani, Bianca Maria Sforza, Catherine Cornaro, Francisco de Almeida, Juan de la Cosa, Mihnea cel Rău, Giovanni Sforza, Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, Sidonie of Poděbrady, and Catherine of Genoa.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giorgione ranks 172 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Lucius I (200), Pope Innocent VIII (1432), Pope Sylvester III (1000), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Pope Gregory XV (1554), and Pope Leo XII (1760). After him are Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Nerva (30), Pope Benedict XIII (1649), Pope Pius IV (1499), Pope Clement XII (1652), and Catherine of Siena (1347).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giorgione ranks 16. Before him are Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Andrea Mantegna (1431), and Fra Angelico (1400). After him are Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Giovanni Bellini (1430), Piero della Francesca (1415), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), and Cimabue (1240).

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