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Paolo Veronese

1528 - 1588

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Paolo Cagliari (1528 – 19 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( VERR-ə-NAY-zay, -⁠zee, also US: -⁠see, Italian: [ˈpaːolo veroˈneːse, -eːze]), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573). Included with Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese is one of the "great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento" and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paolo Veronese has received more than 497,367 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Paolo Veronese is the 58th most popular painter (down from 57th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Italy (up from 160th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Painter.

Paolo Veronese is most famous for his paintings of religious subjects, such as the Last Supper and the Crucifixion.

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  • 81.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paolo Veronese ranks 58 out of 1,428. Before him are Georges Braque, Camille Pissarro, Fra Angelico, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-François Millet, and Jackson Pollock. After him are J. M. W. Turner, Giorgione, Diego Rivera, Théodore Géricault, Georges Seurat, and Giovanni Bellini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1528, Paolo Veronese ranks 1. After him are Jeanne d'Albret, Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, Archduchess Anna of Austria, Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, Theodor de Bry, Catharina van Hemessen, Paolo Boi, Henri Estienne, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, and Birbal. Among people deceased in 1588, Paolo Veronese ranks 2. Before him is Mimar Sinan. After him are Frederick II of Denmark, Henry I, Duke of Guise, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, 3rd Dalai Lama, Henri, Prince of Condé, Qi Jiguang, Johann Weyer, Bernardino Telesio, Alonso Sánchez Coello, and Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Paolo Veronese ranks 147 out of 4,088. Before him are Catherine of Siena (1347), Pope Pius VI (1717), Galba (-3), Pope Pius VIII (1761), Luigi Galvani (1737), and Boethius (480). After him are Agatha of Sicily (235), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Carlo Collodi (1826), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Pope Leo XII (1760), and Anselm of Canterbury (1033).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Paolo Veronese ranks 15. Before him are Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Masaccio (1401), Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Tintoretto (1518), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), and Fra Angelico (1400). After him are Giorgione (1478), Giovanni Bellini (1430), Piero della Francesca (1415), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Andrea Mantegna (1431), and Paolo Uccello (1475).

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