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Kanō Masanobu

1434 - 1530

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Kanō Masanobu (狩野 正信; 1434? – August 2, 1530?, Kyoto) was a Japanese painter. He was the chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and is generally considered the founder of the Kanō school of painting. Kano Masanobu specialized in Zen paintings as well as elaborate paintings of Buddhist deities and Bodhisattvas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kanō Masanobu is the 1,493rd most popular painter (up from 1,579th in 2019). (up from 3,485th in 2019)

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Among painters, Kanō Masanobu ranks 1,493 out of 2,023. Before him are Maria Wodzińska, Gonzales Coques, Ernest Hébert, Echion, Grigory Gagarin, and Kamal-ol-molk. After him are Albert Chmielowski, Martinus Rørbye, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Adolphe Yvon, Heinrich Campendonk, and Frederick Arthur Bridgman.

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Among people born in 1434, Kanō Masanobu ranks 10. Before him are Charles II, Duke of Bourbon, Antonio Grimani, Janus Pannonius, Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Constantine Lascaris, and Mary of Guelders.  Among people deceased in 1530, Kanō Masanobu ranks 20. Before him are Bramantino, Nicholas, Count of Salm, Willibald Pirckheimer, Marco Basaiti, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, and Eric Trolle. After him is Diogo Lopes de Sequeira.

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