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Jean Fouquet

1420 - 1480

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Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (French pronunciation: [fuke]; c. 1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Fouquet has received more than 319,116 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Jean Fouquet is the 130th most popular painter (up from 140th in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from France (up from 442nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Painter.

Jean Fouquet was a French painter who is most famous for his portrait of Charles the Bold.

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  • 320k

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  • 69.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Jean Fouquet has had the most page views in the with 36,462 views, followed by French (22,736), and Spanish (10,533). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Quechua (62.02%), Latin (54.83%), and Swahili (49.25%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean Fouquet ranks 130 out of 2,023. Before him are Parmigianino, Gerrit Dou, Hans Memling, John Constable, Carl Larsson, and Franz Marc. After him are Jan Steen, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Fernand Léger, Hans von Aachen, and Jean Dubuffet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1420, Jean Fouquet ranks 2. Before him is Tomás de Torquemada. After him are Benozzo Gozzoli, George of Poděbrady, Andrea del Castagno, Abdal-Latif Mirza, Sesshū Tōyō, João Vaz Corte-Real, Agostino Barbarigo, Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Barthélemy d'Eyck, and Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou. Among people deceased in 1480, Jean Fouquet ranks 1. After him are René of Anjou, Jan Długosz, Justus van Gent, Janibek Khan, Antonio Vivarini, Uhwudong, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg, Basarab the Old, Eleanor of Scotland, and Nicolas Jenson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Fouquet ranks 413 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Marcel Marceau (1923), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), and André Masséna (1758). After him are Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Alexis Carrel (1873), Pytheas (-380), and Nicolas Malebranche (1638).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean Fouquet ranks 35. Before him are Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Claude Lorrain (1600), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), Georges de La Tour (1593), and Gustave Moreau (1826). After him are Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Fernand Léger (1881), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Odilon Redon (1840), Robert Campin (1375), and Robert Delaunay (1885).

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