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Jan Matsys

1509 - 1575

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Jan Massijs or Jan Matsys (c.1510 – 8 October 1575) was a Flemish Renaissance painter known for his history paintings, genre scenes and landscapes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Matsys has received more than 50,172 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jan Matsys is the 418th most popular painter (up from 511th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 177th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Belgian Painter.

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  • 60.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan Matsys ranks 418 out of 2,023. Before him are Marcantonio Raimondi, Carlo Dolci, Lucian Freud, Cristofano Allori, Karel Appel, and Isaac Levitan. After him are Pieter Lastman, Bernard Buffet, Marianne von Werefkin, Adam Elsheimer, Theophanes the Greek, and Enrique Simonet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1509, Jan Matsys ranks 5. Before him are John Calvin, Michael Servetus, Şah Sultan, and Daniele da Volterra. After him are Fernão Mendes Pinto, John of Leiden, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Bernardino Telesio, Luis de Morales, Étienne Dolet, and Leone Leoni. Among people deceased in 1575, Jan Matsys ranks 3. Before him are Pieter Aertsen, and Joseph Karo. After him are Matthias Flacius, Heinrich Bullinger, Claude of France, Antonis Mor, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, and Annibale Padovano.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jan Matsys ranks 142 out of 1,190. Before him are Bartholomeus Spranger (1546), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Bavo of Ghent (589), Henri Michaux (1899), Paul Van Himst (1943), and Henry I, Duke of Brabant (1165). After him are Charles Michel (1975), Marc Dutroux (1956), Luce Irigaray (1930), John I, Duke of Brabant (1252), Michel Preud'homme (1959), and Catharina van Hemessen (1528).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Jan Matsys ranks 25. Before him are Karel van Mander (1548), Frans Snyders (1579), Adriaen Brouwer (1605), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), David Teniers the Younger (1610), and Bartholomeus Spranger (1546). After him are Catharina van Hemessen (1528), Abraham Brueghel (1631), Roelant Savery (1576), Clara Peeters (1594), Bernard van Orley (1487), and Justus van Gent (1430).

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