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Melozzo da Forlì

1438 - 1494

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Melozzo da Forlì (c. 1438 – 8 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. His fresco paintings are notable for the use of foreshortening. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melozzo da Forlì has received more than 99,398 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 29 in 2019). Melozzo da Forlì is the 469th most popular painter (down from 384th in 2019), the 1,391st most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,210th in 2019) and the 125th most popular Italian Painter.

Melozzo da forlì is most famous for his frescoes in the basilica of san lorenzo in rome.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Melozzo da Forlì ranks 469 out of 2,023Before him are James Tissot, Pierre Puget, Giovanni Boldini, Jacopo de' Barbari, Hans Holbein the Elder, and Godfrey Kneller. After him are Abraham Brueghel, Louise Abbéma, Mariotto Albertinelli, Hannah Höch, Balthasar van der Ast, and Thomas Lawrence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1438, Melozzo da Forlì ranks 5Before him are Radu cel Frumos, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, Philip II, Duke of Savoy, and Sultan Husayn Bayqara. After him are Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, Despina Khatun, James II of Cyprus, Margaret of Bourbon, and Edmund Beaufort. Among people deceased in 1494, Melozzo da Forlì ranks 7Before him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Hans Memling, Ferdinand I of Naples, Poliziano, and Gian Galeazzo Sforza. After him are Matteo Maria Boiardo, Muhammad XIII of Granada, Yuriy Drohobych, Giosafat Barbaro, Giovanni Santi, and Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Melozzo da Forlì ranks 1,391 out of 5,161Before him are Gabriele Ferzetti (1925), Mario Monicelli (1915), Carlo M. Cipolla (1922), Niccolò Jommelli (1714), Tazio Nuvolari (1892), and Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1835). After him are Leonardo Leo (1694), Roger of Lauria (1245), Francesco Cilea (1866), Angelo Schiavio (1905), Matteo Messina Denaro (1962), and Johnny Torrio (1882).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Melozzo da Forlì ranks 125Before him are Pompeo Batoni (1708), Bernardo Daddi (1290), Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727), Giovanni Boldini (1842), and Jacopo de' Barbari (1460). After him are Mariotto Albertinelli (1474), Alesso Baldovinetti (1425), Mattia Preti (1613), Giuseppe Cesari (1568), Jacopo Amigoni (1682), and Cima da Conegliano (1459).