SCULPTOR

Lorenzo Ghiberti

1378 - 1455

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Lorenzo Ghiberti (UK: , US: , Italian: [loˈrɛntso ɡiˈbɛrti]; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise. Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal. His book of Commentarii contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lorenzo Ghiberti has received more than 678,727 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Lorenzo Ghiberti is the 8th most popular sculptor (up from 10th in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Italy (up from 327th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Sculptor.

Lorenzo Ghiberti is most famous for his bronze doors on the Baptistery of Florence.

Memorability Metrics

  • 680k

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  • 71.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Lorenzo Ghiberti has had the most page views in the with 60,341 views, followed by Spanish (27,022), and Italian (22,368). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Macedonian (426.00%), Ido (87.70%), and Piedmontese (86.34%)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 8 out of 258. Before him are Phidias, Myron, Praxiteles, Benvenuto Cellini, Polykleitos, and Camille Claudel. After him are Alberto Giacometti, Lysippos, Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and Constantin Brâncuși.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1378, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 1. After him are Hongxi Emperor, Vittorino da Feltre, Catherine of Burgundy, Louis III, Elector Palatine, Ostoja of Bosnia, and David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay. Among people deceased in 1455, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 3. Before him are Fra Angelico, and Pope Nicholas V. After him are Pisanello, Isabel of Coimbra, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Zbigniew Oleśnicki, and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 320 out of 5,161. Before him are Pierre Cardin (1922), Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892), Pope Cornelius (200), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Giorgio Napolitano (1925), and Pope John XII (937). After him are Dino Zoff (1942), Pope Paschal II (1050), Pope Alexander I (100), Charles Borromeo (1538), Aldo Moro (1916), and Pope Eugene I (600).

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Among SCULPTORS In Italy

Among sculptors born in Italy, Lorenzo Ghiberti ranks 2. Before him are Benvenuto Cellini (1500). After him are Antonio Canova (1757), Nicola Pisano (1225), Jacopo Sansovino (1486), Luca della Robbia (1399), Alessandro Algardi (1595), Giovanni Pisano (1248), Andrea Pisano (1290), Andrea della Robbia (1435), Jacopo della Quercia (1374), and Andrea Sansovino (1467).

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