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Luca Signorelli

1450 - 1523

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Luca Signorelli (c. 1441/1445 – 16 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, in Tuscany, who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescos of the Last Judgment (1499–1503) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece. In his early 40s he returned to live in Cortona, after working in Florence, Siena and Rome (1478–84, painting a now lost section of the Sistine Chapel). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luca Signorelli has received more than 287,853 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Luca Signorelli is the 18th most popular artist (down from 16th in 2019), the 646th most popular biography from Italy (down from 559th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Artist.

Luca Signorelli is most famous for his frescoes in the Orvieto Cathedral.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Luca Signorelli ranks 18 out of 78Before him are Hiroshige, Marina Abramović, Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Käthe Kollwitz, and Roy Lichtenstein. After him are Anders Zorn, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Adolph Menzel, Kurt Schwitters, and Josef Albers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1450, Luca Signorelli ranks 6Before him are Bartolomeu Dias, Hieronymus Bosch, Josquin des Prez, John Cabot, and Kara Ahmed Pasha. After him are Yejong of Joseon, Gerard David, Martin Schongauer, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Marko Marulić, and Francisco de Almeida. Among people deceased in 1523, Luca Signorelli ranks 4Before him are Pietro Perugino, Pope Adrian VI, and Ulrich von Hutten. After him are Gerard David, Mehmed I Giray, Antonio Grimani, Prospero Colonna, Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, Franz von Sickingen, Bartolomeo Montagna, and Ashikaga Yoshitane.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luca Signorelli ranks 646 out of 4,668Before him are Publius Clodius Pulcher (-90), Giancarlo Giannini (1942), Giacomo Leopardi (1798), Giovanni Giustiniani (1418), Lino Ventura (1919), and Conrad of Montferrat (1146). After him are Dario Argento (1940), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1769), Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666), Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (1562), and John William Waterhouse (1849).

Among ARTISTS In Italy

Among artists born in Italy, Luca Signorelli ranks 1After him are Bruno Munari (1907), Luigi Serafini (1949), James Rivière (1949), and Vanessa Beecroft (1969).