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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

1607 - 1665

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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 1609 – 5 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione has received more than 83,370 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione is the 794th most popular painter (up from 809th in 2019), the 2,048th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,036th in 2019) and the 175th most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ranks 794 out of 1,421. Before him are Peter Snayers, Cindy Sherman, Lee Krasner, Vasily Polenov, Nicolas Lancret, and Toriyama Sekien. After him are Marie Krøyer, Walter Sickert, Jost Amman, Walter Crane, Joseph-Marie Vien, and Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1607, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ranks 11. Before him are Anna Maria van Schurman, Zhu Yousong, Infante Carlos of Spain, Antoine Gombaud, Wenceslaus Hollar, and Paul Gerhardt. After him are Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, Antonio Barberini, Song Si-yeol, Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst, Johann von Rist, and Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll. Among people deceased in 1665, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ranks 15. Before him are Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Stefan Czarniecki, Jean Bolland, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, and Andreas Cellarius. After him are Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Lorenzo Lippi, and Maria Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ranks 2,048 out of 4,668. Before him are Iullus Antonius (-43), Fernando d'Ávalos (1489), Loris Francesco Capovilla (1915), Aldo Ciccolini (1925), Marco Pantani (1970), and Galeazzo I Visconti (1277). After him are Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus (-400), Anna Juliana Gonzaga (1566), Maddalena Casulana (1544), Andrea de Cesaris (1959), Valeria Golino (1965), and Antonio Rossellino (1427).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ranks 175. Before him are Carlo Maratta (1625), Piero del Pollaiolo (1443), Alvise Vivarini (1445), Spinello Aretino (1350), Francesco Botticini (1446), and Carlo Saraceni (1579). After him are Bartolomeo Vivarini (1432), Bramantino (1465), Marcello Bacciarelli (1731), Mario Merz (1925), Luca Cambiaso (1527), and Domenico Tintoretto (1560).

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