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Giovanni Battista Moroni

1525 - 1578

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Giovanni Battista Moroni, also known as Giambattista Moroni (c. 1520-1524 – 5 February 1578) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist school. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of the Cinquecento. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Battista Moroni is the 449th most popular painter (up from 610th in 2019), the 1,353rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,664th in 2019) and the 118th most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giovanni Battista Moroni ranks 449 out of 2,023. Before him are Sigmar Polke, Hubert Robert, Piero Manzoni, Lucian Freud, Jean-Étienne Liotard, and Mikhail Vrubel. After him are Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Theophanes the Greek, Cima da Conegliano, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ary Scheffer, and Suzuki Harunobu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Giovanni Battista Moroni ranks 5. Before him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Nurbanu Sultan, Şehzade Bayezid, and John George, Elector of Brandenburg. After him are Hans Staden, Zhang Juzheng, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Germain Pilon, Patriarch Job of Moscow, Juraj Drašković, and Tadeáš Hájek. Among people deceased in 1578, Giovanni Battista Moroni ranks 11. Before him are Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal, Uesugi Kenshin, Margaret Douglas, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, Sebastiano Venier, and Pierre Lescot. After him are Giulio Clovio, Piali Pasha, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Marie Elisabeth of France, Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, and Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Moroni ranks 1,353 out of 5,161. Before him are Dion of Syracuse (-409), Luigi Tenco (1938), Gianni Morandi (1944), Naevius Sutorius Macro (-21), Eleanor of Anjou (1289), and Armando Diaz (1861). After him are Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (1596), Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1490), Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804), Andrea Amati (1505), and Cima da Conegliano (1459).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Moroni ranks 118. Before him are Fede Galizia (1578), Carlo Levi (1902), Gino Severini (1883), Orcagna (1315), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727), and Piero Manzoni (1933). After him are Cima da Conegliano (1459), Marcantonio Raimondi (1480), Cristofano Allori (1577), Jacopo de' Barbari (1460), Giulio Clovio (1498), and Giovanni Lanfranco (1582).

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