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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 46,723 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jan Matsys is the 512th most popular painter (down from 504th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 181st in 2019) and the 30th most popular Belgian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan Matsys ranks 512 out of 1,421Before him are Ivan Bilibin, Elisabetta Sirani, Alessandro Magnasco, Bernard Buffet, Françoise Gilot, and Paris Bordone. After him are Giuseppe Crespi, Hannah Höch, Salomon van Ruysdael, Thomas Cole, Mikhail Larionov, and Theodor Kittelsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1509, Jan Matsys ranks 8Before him are Michael Servetus, Şah Sultan, Daniele da Volterra, Fernão Mendes Pinto, John of Leiden, and Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. After him are Bernardino Telesio, Ippolito II d'Este, Étienne Dolet, Luis de Morales, Leone Leoni, and Melchor Cano. Among people deceased in 1575, Jan Matsys ranks 7Before him are Pieter Aertsen, Claude of France, Antonis Mor, Heinrich Bullinger, Matthias Flacius, and Joseph Karo. After him are Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Francesco Maurolico, Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Corneille de Lyon, Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern, and Marcin Bielski.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jan Matsys ranks 177 out of 1,019Before him are Paul Van Himst (1943), Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759), Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (1859), Georges Rodenbach (1855), Catharina van Hemessen (1528), and Eric Gerets (1954). After him are Godfried Danneels (1933), Constantin Meunier (1831), Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1422), Clara Peeters (1594), Raymond Goethals (1921), and Paul Otlet (1868).

Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Jan Matsys ranks 30Before him are Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), Fernand Khnopff (1858), Bartholomeus Spranger (1546), Bernard van Orley (1487), Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759), and Catharina van Hemessen (1528). After him are Constantin Meunier (1831), Clara Peeters (1594), Roelant Savery (1576), Melchior Broederlam (1355), Théo van Rysselberghe (1862), and Pierre Alechinsky (1927).