PAINTER

Pietro Lorenzetti

1280 - 1348

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Pietro Lorenzetti (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro lorenˈtsetti]; c. 1280 – 1348) or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter, active between c. 1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pietro Lorenzetti has received more than 164,708 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 39 in 2019). Pietro Lorenzetti is the 270th most popular painter (down from 241st in 2019), the 895th most popular biography from Italy (down from 806th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Italian Painter.

Pietro Lorenzetti is most famous for his frescoes in the Siena Cathedral.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pietro Lorenzetti ranks 270 out of 2,023Before him are Giorgio Morandi, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Rosalba Carriera, Guercino, Jan van Goyen, and Alessandro Allori. After him are Martin Schongauer, Zeuxis, Hendrick Avercamp, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Baldassare Peruzzi, and Gerda Wegener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1280, Pietro Lorenzetti ranks 4Before him are Pope Benedict XII, Musa I of Mali, and Öljaitü. After him are Michael Shishman of Bulgaria, Birger, King of Sweden, Blanche of Anjou, John Koukouzelis, Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg, Wu Zhen, Eric I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Ugolino di Nerio. Among people deceased in 1348, Pietro Lorenzetti ranks 3Before him are Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Andrea Pisano. After him are Laura de Noves, Al-Dhahabi, Bernardo Daddi, Giovanni Villani, Blanche of Valois, Don Juan Manuel, Emperor Hanazono, Barlaam of Seminara, and Ferrer Bassa.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Lorenzetti ranks 895 out of 5,161Before him are Francesco Cavalli (1602), Rosalia Lombardo (1918), Ladislaus of Naples (1377), Dino De Laurentiis (1919), Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476), and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo (5). After him are Beatrice of Naples (1457), Filippo Inzaghi (1973), Alfonso II of Naples (1448), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), Maurizio Sarri (1959), and Richard Rogers (1933).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Pietro Lorenzetti ranks 77Before him are Gentile da Fabriano (1370), Francesco Hayez (1791), Giorgio Morandi (1890), Rosalba Carriera (1673), Guercino (1591), and Alessandro Allori (1535). After him are Zeuxis (-500), Baldassare Peruzzi (1481), François Gérard (1770), Carlo Crivelli (1430), Jacopo Bassano (1510), and Orazio Gentileschi (1563).