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Mikhail Vrubel

1856 - 1910

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Вру́бель; March 17, [O.S. March 5] 1856 – April 14, [O.S. April 1] 1910) was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. A prolific and innovative master in various media such as painting, drawing, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art, Vrubel is generally characterized as one of the most important artists in Russian symbolist tradition and a pioneering figure of Modernist art. In a 1990 biography of Vrubel, the Soviet art historian Nina Dmitrieva considered his life and art as a three-act drama with prologue and epilogue, while the transition between acts was rapid and unexpected. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Vrubel has received more than 368,234 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Mikhail Vrubel is the 428th most popular painter (up from 447th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Russia (up from 450th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Painter.

Mikhail Vrubel is most famous for his painting "The Last Day of Pompeii," which depicts the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The painting is currently on display at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Mikhail Vrubel ranks 428 out of 2,023. Before him are Adam Elsheimer, Theophanes the Greek, Enrique Simonet, Lovis Corinth, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Yves Tanguy. After him are Zinaida Serebriakova, Maud Lewis, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Suzuki Harunobu, Piero Manzoni, and Catharina van Hemessen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Mikhail Vrubel ranks 29. Before him are L. Frank Baum, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, John Singer Sargent, H. Rider Haggard, Jean Moréas, and Wilhelm von Gloeden. After him are Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Stepa Stepanović, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Sergei Taneyev, Hara Takashi, and Naftali Herz Imber. Among people deceased in 1910, Mikhail Vrubel ranks 31. Before him are Karl Lueger, William Holman Hunt, Albert Anker, Carl Reinecke, Jean Moréas, and Arkhip Kuindzhi. After him are William Huggins, Richard Abegg, Auguste Charlois, Alexander Agassiz, Henri-Edmond Cross, and Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Vrubel ranks 419 out of 3,761. Before him are Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Viktor Belenko (1947), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Ivan Serov (1905), Alexey Pajitnov (1956), and Lovis Corinth (1858). After him are Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154), Lila Kedrova (1918), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), Pyotr Krasnov (1869), and Sacha Guitry (1885).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Mikhail Vrubel ranks 16. Before him are Karl Bryullov (1799), Valentin Serov (1865), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), Vasily Perov (1834), Marianne von Werefkin (1860), and Lovis Corinth (1858). After him are Lyubov Popova (1889), Vasily Surikov (1848), Ivan Bilibin (1876), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Martiros Saryan (1880), and Nicolas de Staël (1914).

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