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Giovanni Boldini

1842 - 1931

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Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 – 11 January 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Boldini has received more than 393,250 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Giovanni Boldini is the 465th most popular painter (down from 441st in 2019), the 1,380th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,339th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular Italian Painter.

Giovanni Boldini is most famous for his paintings and drawings of beautiful women.

Memorability Metrics

  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giovanni Boldini ranks 465 out of 2,023. Before him are Gu Kaizhi, Bob Ross, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Matthäus Merian, James Tissot, and Pierre Puget. After him are Jacopo de' Barbari, Hans Holbein the Elder, Godfrey Kneller, Melozzo da Forlì, Abraham Brueghel, and Louise Abbéma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Giovanni Boldini ranks 29. Before him are Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, Édouard Lucas, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Jean Gaston Darboux. After him are Johannes Zukertort, Gaston, Count of Eu, Alphonse Borrelly, Vilhelm Thomsen, Mykola Lysenko, and Ōyama Iwao. Among people deceased in 1931, Giovanni Boldini ranks 34. Before him are Kitasato Shibasaburō, Wilhelm von Gloeden, André Michelin, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, and Thomas Lipton. After him are Vincent d'Indy, Jaime, Duke of Madrid, Auguste Forel, Charles Algernon Parsons, Antonio Salandra, and Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Boldini ranks 1,380 out of 5,161. Before him are Angelo Secchi (1818), Vonones I (-100), Nanni Moretti (1953), Quintus Hortensius (-114), Saint Silvia (515), and Arnold of Brescia (1100). After him are Matthias Gallas (1584), Massimo Moratti (1945), Angelo Scola (1941), Jacopo de' Barbari (1460), Gabriele Ferzetti (1925), and Mario Monicelli (1915).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giovanni Boldini ranks 123. Before him are Cennino Cennini (1360), Fede Galizia (1578), Pompeo Batoni (1708), Bernardo Daddi (1290), Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467), and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727). After him are Jacopo de' Barbari (1460), Melozzo da Forlì (1438), Mariotto Albertinelli (1474), Alesso Baldovinetti (1425), Mattia Preti (1613), and Giuseppe Cesari (1568).

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