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Giovanni Battista Gaulli

1639 - 1709

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Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand illusionistic vault frescos in the Church of the Gesù in Rome, Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Gaulli has received more than 137,248 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Gaulli is the 675th most popular painter (down from 636th in 2019), the 1,808th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,740th in 2019) and the 164th most popular Italian Painter.

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  • 57.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Giovanni Battista Gaulli has had the most page views in the with 14,375 views, followed by Italian (9,334), and Spanish (4,316). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (196.77%), Basque (95.85%), and Esperanto (51.81%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 675 out of 2,023. Before him are Frans Hogenberg, Ignacio Zuloaga, Juan Carreño de Miranda, Thomas Eakins, Pieter van Laer, and Adrien Manglard. After him are Karl von Piloty, Maurycy Gottlieb, François Lemoyne, Arnold Houbraken, Max Pechstein, and Benvenuto Tisi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1639, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 5. Before him are Jean Racine, Ivan Mazepa, Dom Pérignon, and Marie Mancini. After him are Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, Laura Martinozzi, Caspar Netscher, Gottfried Kirch, and Metacomet. Among people deceased in 1709, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 9. Before him are Meindert Hobbema, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, François Louis, Prince of Conti, Andrea Pozzo, and Henri Jules, Prince of Condé. After him are François de la Chaise, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, George Rooke, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, and Dimitry of Rostov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 1,808 out of 5,161. Before him are Agostino Chigi (1465), Vittorio Brambilla (1937), Nevio Scala (1947), Vitalis of Milan (null), Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538), and Luigi Pulci (1432). After him are Margherita de' Medici (1612), Archestratus (-350), Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma (1934), Pippo Spano (1369), Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666), and Giovanni Pacini (1796).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 164. Before him are Bartolomeo Vivarini (1432), Francesco de' Rossi (1510), Alessandro Magnasco (1667), Marietta Robusti (1554), Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609), and Francesco Solimena (1657). After him are Benvenuto Tisi (1481), Piero del Pollaiolo (1443), Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582), Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483), Eugene de Blaas (1843), and Giovanna Garzoni (1600).

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