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Juan de Herrera

1530 - 1593

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Juan de Herrera (1530 – 15 January 1597) was a Spanish architect, mathematician and geometrician. One of the most outstanding Spanish architects in the 16th century, Herrera represents the peak of the Renaissance in Spain. His sober style reached full development in buildings like the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan de Herrera has received more than 89,748 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Juan de Herrera is the 160th most popular architect (up from 175th in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from Spain (up from 576th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Spanish Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Juan de Herrera ranks 160 out of 424. Before him are Philibert de l'Orme, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Ernst Neufert, Joseph Paxton, Michael Ventris, and Hermann Tilke. After him are Ur-Nanshe, Jacobus Oud, Jean Chalgrin, Fumihiko Maki, Charlotte Perriand, and Kevin A. Lynch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Juan de Herrera ranks 13. Before him are Yasuke, Louis, Prince of Condé, Ruy López de Segura, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Jan Kochanowski, and Christopher Báthory. After him are Starina Novak, Ranuccio Farnese, Kuyucu Murad Pasha, Giambattista Benedetti, Nicholas Rémy, and Symon Budny. Among people deceased in 1593, Juan de Herrera ranks 5. Before him are Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Christopher Marlowe, Emperor Ōgimachi, and Li Shizhen. After him are Jacques Amyot, Symon Budny, Maciej Stryjkowski, Xu Wei, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, and Abd al-Samad.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan de Herrera ranks 564 out of 2,932. Before him are Junípero Serra (1713), Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (1057), Jabir ibn Aflah (1100), Santiago Rusiñol (1861), Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (1154), and Josep Lluís Núñez (1931). After him are Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (1901), Theodulf of Orléans (750), Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614), Javier Marías (1951), Verónica Forqué (1955), and Gilbert Horal (1200).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Spain

Among architects born in Spain, Juan de Herrera ranks 8. Before him are Santiago Calatrava (1951), Ricardo Bofill (1939), Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850), Rafael Moneo (1937), Alonzo Cano (1601), and Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867). After him are Muhammad V of Granada (1339), Félix Candela (1910), Josep Lluís Sert (1902), Josep Maria Jujol (1879), José Benito de Churriguera (1665), and Juan Bautista de Toledo (1515).

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