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Boris Vallejo

1941 - Today

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Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941) is a Peruvian-American painter who works in the science fiction, fantasy, and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous novels in the science fiction, sword and sorcery, and fantasy fiction genres, along with album covers for musical groups in addition to movie posters and other media. His art is also sold through a series of annual calendars. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Vallejo is the 1,159th most popular painter (down from 968th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Peru (down from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Peruvian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Boris Vallejo ranks 1,159 out of 2,023Before him are Polidoro da Caravaggio, Davide Ghirlandaio, A. R. Penck, Christiane Kubrick, Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, and Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry. After him are N. C. Wyeth, Caspar Netscher, Uroš Predić, Mikoláš Aleš, Giuseppe Amisani, and Lucas van Valckenborch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Boris Vallejo ranks 258Before him are Angelo Domenghini, Percy Sledge, Patricio Guzmán, Eugène Terre'Blanche, Alfred Aho, and Cristina Peri Rossi. After him are Sonny Landham, Chucho Valdés, Dennis Sullivan, Yuri Norstein, Gregory Benford, and Maurice Piat.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Boris Vallejo ranks 55 out of 287Before him are Manuel A. Odría (1896), José María Arguedas (1911), Agustín Gamarra (1785), Pedro Barreto (1944), Manuel Prado Ugarteche (1889), and Óscar R. Benavides (1876). After him are Augusto B. Leguía (1863), Francisco Morales Bermúdez (1921), Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro (1889), Ramón Castilla (1797), Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro (1780), and Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836).

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Among PAINTERS In Peru

Among painters born in Peru, Boris Vallejo ranks 1After him are Alberto Vargas (1896).