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Kanō Motonobu

1476 - 1559

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Kanō Motonobu (狩野 元信; August 28, 1476 – November 5, 1559) was a Japanese painter and calligrapher. He was a member of the Kanō school of painting. Through his political connections, patronage, organization, and influence he was able to make the Kanō school into what it is today. The system was responsible for the training of a great majority of painters throughout the Edo period (1603–1868). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kanō Motonobu is the 1,147th most popular painter (up from 1,314th in 2019), the 914th most popular biography from Japan (up from 961st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kanō Motonobu ranks 1,147 out of 2,023. Before him are Ugolino di Nerio, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Zdeněk Burian, Bartolomeo Carducci, Franz Kline, and Willem Drost. After him are Vincenzo Foppa, Massimo Stanzione, Fritz Bleyl, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Anna Palm de Rosa, and Polidoro da Caravaggio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1476, Kanō Motonobu ranks 15. Before him are Girolamo Fracastoro, Helena of Moscow, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, Ayşe Hatun, Anna Sforza, and Hans von Kulmbach.  Among people deceased in 1559, Kanō Motonobu ranks 19. Before him are Michele Sanmicheli, Robert Estienne, Wen Zhengming, Fatma Sultan, Christina Gyllenstierna, and Otto Henry, Elector Palatine. After him are Realdo Colombo, Adam Ries, and Lorenzo Priuli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kanō Motonobu ranks 914 out of 6,245. Before him are Kenzo Yokoyama (1943), Hiroshi Yoshida (1958), Kunimitsu Takahashi (1940), Takayoshi Yamano (1955), Koichi Kudo (1909), and Kodama Gentarō (1852). After him are Kabayama Sukenori (1837), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), and Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kanō Motonobu ranks 17. Before him are Takashi Murakami (1962), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), On Kawara (1932), and Torii Kiyonaga (1752). After him are Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kanō Tan'yū (1602), Unkei (1151), Tarō Okamoto (1911), and Kuroda Seiki (1866).

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