PAINTER

Karel Škréta

1610 - 1674

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Karel Škréta Šotnovský of Závořice (Czech: Karel Škréta Šotnovský ze Závořic; 1610 – 1674) was a portrait painter from Bohemia who worked in the Baroque style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Škréta has received more than 32,353 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Škréta is the 910th most popular painter (up from 1,468th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 506th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Painter.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karel Škréta ranks 910 out of 2,023. Before him are Alonso Berruguete, Hans von Kulmbach, Gaspard Dughet, Adolphe Monticelli, Anton Graff, and Louise Catherine Breslau. After him are Cornelis de Vos, Christen Købke, Muqi, Giampietrino, Emile Claus, and Pedro Américo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1610, Karel Škréta ranks 16. Before him are Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Oboi, Li Yu, Jan Asselijn, Maria Cunitz, and Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange. After him are Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, Abraham Duquesne, Jan Miense Molenaer, Huang Zongxi, Albert Eckhout, and Georg Marcgrave. Among people deceased in 1674, Karel Škréta ranks 12. Before him are Jan Lievens, Jean Chapelain, Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg, John Graunt, Hallgrímur Pétursson, and Leonaert Bramer. After him are Mehmed IV Giray, Hu Zhengyan, Ebba Brahe, Matthias Weckmann, Johannes Lingelbach, and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Škréta ranks 287 out of 1,200. Before him are Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Karel Hynek Mácha (1810), Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (1204), Josef Blösche (1912), Vítězslav Nezval (1900), and Josef Sudek (1896). After him are Elisabeth of Bohemia (1358), Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria (1863), Tomáš Špidlík (1919), Karel Kramář (1860), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1862), and Jan Fischer (1951).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Karel Škréta ranks 6. Before him are Alphonse Mucha (1860), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), František Kupka (1871), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), and Emil Orlík (1870). After him are Toyen (1902), Petr Brandl (1668), Anna Chromý (1940), Gabriel von Max (1840), Zdeněk Burian (1905), and Georg Flegel (1566).

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