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Herri met de Bles

1480 - 1555

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Herri met de Bles, also known as Henri Bles, Herri de Dinant, Herry de Patinir,(c. 1490 – after 1566), was a Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter, native of Bouvignes or Dinant (both in present-day Belgium). He contributed, along with Joachim Patinir and Lucas Gassel, to a distinct style of Northern Renaissance landscape painting basically originating from Gerard David's works and combining small history or religious scenes into compositions defined by perspective and atmospheric effects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herri met de Bles has received more than 65,757 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Herri met de Bles is the 699th most popular painter (up from 770th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 272nd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Belgian Painter.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Herri met de Bles ranks 699 out of 2,023. Before him are Joseph-Marie Vien, Cy Twombly, Mikhail Nesterov, Reza Abbasi, Dong Yuan, and Paul Gavarni. After him are Eugene de Blaas, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Frans Masereel, Amédée Ozenfant, Franz von Bayros, and Eugène Carrière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Herri met de Bles ranks 25. Before him are Matrakçı Nasuh, Juan de Grijalva, Stańczyk, Charlotte of Albret, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, and Sebastián de Belalcázar. After him are António de Abreu, Pir Sultan Abdal, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Pedro Damiano, Girolamo Savoldo, and Girolamo Aleandro. Among people deceased in 1555, Herri met de Bles ranks 8. Before him are Pope Julius III, Pope Marcellus II, Georgius Agricola, Henry II of Navarre, Kara Ahmed Pasha, and Pedro Mascarenhas. After him are Agnes of Hesse, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja, Thomas of Villanova, Oronce Finé, and Heinrich Aldegrever.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Herri met de Bles ranks 234 out of 1,190. Before him are Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau (1727), Adalard of Corbie (751), Prince Alexandre of Belgium (1942), Georges Leekens (1949), Jodocus Hondius (1563), and Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802). After him are Patrick Bauchau (1938), Frans Masereel (1889), Juliana of Liège (1193), Leo Tindemans (1922), Jean Rey (1902), and Romelu Lukaku (1993).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Herri met de Bles ranks 43. Before him are Melchior Broederlam (1355), Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573), Théo van Rysselberghe (1862), Adriaen van Utrecht (1599), Barthélemy d'Eyck (1420), and Frans Hogenberg (1535). After him are Frans Masereel (1889), Antoine Wiertz (1806), Gillis van Coninxloo (1544), Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632), Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569), and Jan Fyt (1611).

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