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Alessandro Magnasco

1667 - 1749

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Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandro Magnasco is the 731st most popular painter (down from 652nd in 2019), the 1,947th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,730th in 2019) and the 168th most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Alessandro Magnasco ranks 731 out of 2,023. Before him are Viktor Hartmann, Hans Hartung, Yoshitoshi, François-André Vincent, Esaias van de Velde, and Adolphe Monticelli. After him are Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Jacek Malczewski, Justus Sustermans, Moritz von Schwind, Joseph-Marie Vien, and Jan van der Heyden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1667, Alessandro Magnasco ranks 11. Before him are Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Queen Inhyeon, Antonio Lotti, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Jan Kupecký, and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. After him are Johann Christoph Pepusch, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, James Louis Sobieski, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, and Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha. Among people deceased in 1749, Alessandro Magnasco ranks 4. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault. After him are Shahu I, Adel Shah, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Jan van Huysum, William Jones, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, and Matthias Bel.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Magnasco ranks 1,947 out of 5,161. Before him are Tonino Guerra (1920), Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (-180), Marcus Antonius Antyllus (-46), Matteo Messina Denaro (1962), Lancelotto Malocello (1270), and Vincenzo Coronelli (1650). After him are Giuseppe De Santis (1917), Maddalena Casulana (1544), Luigi Illica (1857), Francesco Maria Veracini (1690), Angelo Bagnasco (1943), and Emilio Colombo (1920).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Alessandro Magnasco ranks 168. Before him are Marietta Robusti (1554), Antonio Vivarini (1440), Guido of Siena (1230), Lippo Memmi (1291), Andrea Appiani (1754), and Eugene de Blaas (1843). After him are Marcello Bacciarelli (1731), Alvise Vivarini (1445), Francesco Botticini (1446), Ercole de' Roberti (1450), Francesco de' Rossi (1510), and Francesco Squarcione (1397).

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