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Jan Sanders van Hemessen

1500 - 1566

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Jan Sanders van Hemessen (c. 1500 – c. 1566) was a leading Flemish Renaissance painter, belonging to the group of Italianizing Flemish painters called the Romanists, who were influenced by Italian Renaissance painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Sanders van Hemessen has received more than 74,206 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jan Sanders van Hemessen is the 959th most popular painter (down from 940th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 330th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Belgian Painter.

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  • 54.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan Sanders van Hemessen ranks 959 out of 2,023. Before him are Mario Merz, Allaert van Everdingen, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Allan Kaprow, Paulus Moreelse, and Vincenzo Foppa. After him are Vanessa Bell, Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, Giovanni di Paolo, Giovanni Giacometti, Paul Émile Chabas, and Torii Kiyonaga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Jan Sanders van Hemessen ranks 35. Before him are Nuno Gonçalves, Tielman Susato, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Luis de Milán, Francisco de Bobadilla, and Sebald Beham. After him are Nuno Tristão, Jacob Hutter, Ambrosius Benson, Luis de Narváez, Rum Mehmed Pasha, and Georg Pencz. Among people deceased in 1566, Jan Sanders van Hemessen ranks 12. Before him are Daniele da Volterra, Leonhart Fuchs, Louise Labé, Antonio de Cabezón, Sigismund von Herberstein, and Margaret Paleologa. After him are Taddeo Zuccari, Lambert Lombard, Guillaume Rondelet, Johannes Agricola, Francisco López de Gómara, and Christopher, Count of Oldenburg.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jan Sanders van Hemessen ranks 345 out of 1,190. Before him are Hendrick van Balen the Elder (1570), Paul van Zeeland (1893), Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (1630), Camille Jenatzy (1868), Paul Janssen (1926), and Hugo Broos (1952). After him are Lambert I, Count of Louvain (1000), Gaston Roelants (1937), David Teniers the Elder (1582), Firmin Lambot (1886), Amélie Nothomb (1967), and Louis Michel (1947).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Jan Sanders van Hemessen ranks 68. Before him are Eugène Boch (1855), Paul Bril (1556), Emile Claus (1849), Jan Porcellis (1583), Hendrick van Balen the Elder (1570), and Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (1630). After him are David Teniers the Elder (1582), Gaspar de Crayer (1584), Marcel Broodthaers (1924), Lucas van Valckenborch (1535), Aelbrecht Bouts (1450), and Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1607).

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