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Giacomo Ceruti

1698 - 1767

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Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (13 October 1698 – 28 August 1767) was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy in Milan, Brescia, and Venice. He acquired the nickname Pitocchetto (the little beggar) for his many paintings of peasants dressed in rags. He was born in Milan, but worked primarily in Brescia. He may have been influenced early by Antonio Cifrondi and/or Giacomo Todesco (Todeschini), and received training from Carlo Ceresa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giacomo Ceruti is the 1,426th most popular painter (down from 1,389th in 2019), the 3,136th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,049th in 2019) and the 250th most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 1,426 out of 2,023. Before him are Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Hans Hofmann, Charles de La Fosse, Julio Romero de Torres, Pavel Chistyakov, and Sofia Adlersparre. After him are John Trumbull, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Juan Fernández Navarrete, Jacoba van Heemskerck, and Theodoor Rombouts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 17. Before him are Johann Jakob Bodmer, Erik Pontoppidan, Jean Calas, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, George Browne, and François Francoeur. After him are Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pyotr Saltykov, Henry Baker, Prokop Diviš, and Giambattista Lolli. Among people deceased in 1767, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 16. Before him are Étienne de Silhouette, Ekkathat, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Firmin Abauzit, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, and Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany. After him are Charles Townshend, Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov, and Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 3,137 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Loredan (1685), Francesco Sabatini (1721), Giulio Cesare Polerio (1548), Marcus Aurelius Cotta (-150), Ranieri de' Calzabigi (1714), and Vannoccio Biringuccio (1480). After him are Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825), Tommaso Tittoni (1855), Antonio Di Pietro (1950), Sergio Rossi (1935), Giulio Alenio (1582), and Castruccio Castracani (1281).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giacomo Ceruti ranks 250. Before him are Vitale da Bologna (1289), Valerio Adami (1935), Bartolo di Fredi (1330), Boccaccio Boccaccino (1460), Giulia Lama (1681), and Domenico Tintoretto (1560). After him are Giottino (1324), Paolo Salvati (1939), Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448), Giusto de' Menabuoi (1330), Sisto Badalocchio (1585), and Giovanni d'Alemagna (null).

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