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Giovanni Pietro Bellori

1613 - 1696

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Giovanni Pietro Bellori (15 January 1613 – 19 February 1696), also known as Giovan Pietro Bellori or Gian Pietro Bellori, was an Italian art theorist, painter and antiquarian, who is best known for his work Lives of the Artists, considered the seventeenth-century equivalent to Vasari's Vite. His Vite de' Pittori, Scultori et Architetti Moderni, published in 1672, was influential in consolidating and promoting the theoretical case for classical idealism in art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Pietro Bellori has received more than 49,813 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Giovanni Pietro Bellori is the 536th most popular painter (up from 672nd in 2019), the 1,518th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,811th in 2019) and the 139th most popular Italian Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.62

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Over the past year Giovanni Pietro Bellori has had the most page views in the with 6,477 views, followed by English (5,863), and German (2,567). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (146.43%), Ukrainian (96.15%), and Egyptian Arabic (55.85%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giovanni Pietro Bellori ranks 536 out of 2,023. Before him are Cornelis van Haarlem, Sebastiano Ricci, Justus van Gent, Georg Baselitz, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Jan Toorop. After him are Hishikawa Moronobu, Dirck van Baburen, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Parrhasius, Naji al-Ali, and Jost Amman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1613, Giovanni Pietro Bellori ranks 8. Before him are Gerrit Dou, André Le Nôtre, Claude Perrault, John George II, Elector of Saxony, Mattia Preti, and Carl Gustaf Wrangel. After him are Jean François Paul de Gondi, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Khushal Khattak, Luisa de Guzmán, Gaspard Dughet, and William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz. Among people deceased in 1696, Giovanni Pietro Bellori ranks 8. Before him are Ivan V of Russia, Mariana of Austria, Empress Meishō, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Jean de La Bruyère, and Louise Moillon. After him are Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach, Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Murad Giray, Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Shi Lang, and Jean Domat.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Pietro Bellori ranks 1,518 out of 5,161. Before him are John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834), Maria Beatrice of Savoy (1792), Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427), Vincenzo Lancia (1881), Bettino Ricasoli (1809), and Lina Bo Bardi (1914). After him are Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Leonardo Sciascia (1921), Antipope Victor IV (1010), Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779), Rinaldo d'Este (1655), and Licio Gelli (1919).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giovanni Pietro Bellori ranks 139. Before him are Giovanni Lanfranco (1582), Carlo Levi (1902), Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486), Stefano di Giovanni (1392), Giuseppe Crespi (1665), and Sebastiano Ricci (1659). After him are Guido of Siena (1230), Carlo Maratta (1625), Pietro Longhi (1701), Michael Pacher (1435), Paris Bordone (1500), and Bernardo Strozzi (1581).

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