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Piero Manzoni

1933 - 1963

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Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni (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 353,771 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Piero Manzoni is the 430th most popular painter (down from 354th in 2019), the 1,323rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,129th 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 430 out of 1,421. Before him are Lyubov Popova, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Christian Krohg, José Clemente Orozco, Ary Scheffer, and Anna Ancher. After him are Marianne von Werefkin, Albert Edelfelt, Ernest Meissonier, Orcagna, Tsuguharu Foujita, and Erich Heckel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Piero Manzoni ranks 82. Before him are The Singing Nun, Jean-Claude Brialy, Tom Skerritt, Sylva Koscina, Danny Aiello, and Richard S. Castellano. After him are Jerzy Kosiński, Lamine Diack, Yuri Oganessian, Nino Vaccarella, Peter Mansfield, and David Hamilton. Among people deceased in 1963, Piero Manzoni ranks 38. Before him are Richard Barthelmess, Józef Gosławski, Kurt Zeitzler, Oleg Penkovsky, Pedro Armendáriz, and Karl Bühler. After him are William Beveridge, Alois Hudal, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, William Carlos Williams, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sivananda Saraswati.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Piero Manzoni ranks 1,323 out of 4,668. Before him are Gianna Nannini (1954), Timaeus of Locri (-200), Tito Gobbi (1913), Lambert of Italy (880), Alessandro Valignano (1539), and Pietro Della Valle (1586). After him are Mario Capecchi (1937), Renata Scotto (1934), Mikhail Tsvet (1872), Andreas Hofer (1767), Orcagna (1315), 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 Giovanni Segantini (1858), Cristofano Allori (1577), Cosimo Tura (1430), Lorenzo Costa (1460), Alessandro Allori (1535), and Carlo Levi (1902). After him are Orcagna (1315), Giovanni Boldini (1842), Jacopo de' Barbari (1460), Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467), Pietro Longhi (1701), and Andrea Solari (1460).

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