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Piero Manzoni

1933 - 1963

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Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. Manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object, directly prefiguring Conceptual Art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piero Manzoni has received more than 376,229 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Piero Manzoni is the 433rd most popular painter (down from 429th in 2019), the 1,303rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,319th in 2019) and the 116th most popular Italian Painter.

Piero Manzoni is most famous for his "Artist's Shit" series. He would take feces from a variety of animals and put them in tin cans, which he then labeled with an artist's name.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Piero Manzoni ranks 433 out of 2,023. Before him are Yves Tanguy, Mikhail Vrubel, Zinaida Serebriakova, Maud Lewis, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Suzuki Harunobu. After him are Catharina van Hemessen, Erich Heckel, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, José Clemente Orozco, Salaì, and Cennino Cennini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Piero Manzoni ranks 81. Before him are Fouad Mebazaa, Jean-Claude Brialy, Larry King, Yuri Oganessian, Jehan Sadat, and Teresa Berganza. After him are Sylva Koscina, Henri, Count of Paris, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Tom Skerritt, Liliana Cavani, and The Singing Nun. Among people deceased in 1963, Piero Manzoni ranks 38. Before him are Józef Gosławski, Richard Barthelmess, Karl Bühler, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Pedro Armendáriz, and Michael Rockefeller. After him are Sivananda Saraswati, Eduard Spranger, Sylvanus Olympio, Gustave Garrigou, Alois Hudal, and Remedios Varo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Piero Manzoni ranks 1,303 out of 5,161. Before him are Gianni Vattimo (1936), Lucilio Vanini (1585), Amintore Fanfani (1908), Mario Del Monaco (1915), Charles I, Duke of Savoy (1468), and Ascanio Sforza (1455). After him are Salvador Luria (1912), Andrea Dandolo (1306), Lorenzo Buffon (1929), Authari (540), Cennino Cennini (1360), and Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (1328).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Piero Manzoni ranks 116. Before him are Gino Severini (1883), Andrea Solari (1460), Pietro Cavallini (1240), Marcantonio Raimondi (1480), Carlo Dolci (1616), and Cristofano Allori (1577). After him are Cennino Cennini (1360), Fede Galizia (1578), Pompeo Batoni (1708), Bernardo Daddi (1290), Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467), and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727).

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