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Massimo Stanzione

1585 - 1656

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Massimo Stanzione (also called Stanzioni; Frattamaggiore 1585 – Naples 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, mainly active in Naples, where he and his rival Jusepe de Ribera dominated the painting scene for several decades. He was primarily a painter of altarpieces, working in both oils and fresco (these usually for ceilings). His main subject matter was biblical scenes. He also painted portraits and mythological subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Massimo Stanzione is the 1,149th most popular painter (down from 1,076th in 2019), the 2,704th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,550th in 2019) and the 226th most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Massimo Stanzione ranks 1,149 out of 2,023Before him are Zdeněk Burian, Bartolomeo Carducci, Franz Kline, Willem Drost, Kanō Motonobu, and Vincenzo Foppa. After him are Fritz Bleyl, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Anna Palm de Rosa, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Davide Ghirlandaio, and A. R. Penck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Massimo Stanzione ranks 14Before him are Jacob Le Maire, Lucilio Vanini, Zacharias Janssen, Jacques Lemercier, John Rolfe, and Mary Ward. After him are Hamnet Shakespeare, Johann Baptist Cysat, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, and Pedro Teixeira. Among people deceased in 1656, Massimo Stanzione ranks 14Before him are Ottavio Piccolomini, Thomas Fincke, Laurent de La Hyre, Andrea Falconieri, Dirck Hals, and Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg. After him are Carlo Contarini, Roberto de Nobili, Georg Calixtus, Francesco Cornaro, and Thomas Tomkins.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Massimo Stanzione ranks 2,704 out of 5,161Before him are Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1545), Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus (1), Lanassa (-400), Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1395), Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara (1450), and Vincenzo Foppa (1427). After him are Obelerio degli Antenori (800), Titus Burckhardt (1908), Robertino Loreti (1947), Piero Piccioni (1921), Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti (1846), and Appius Claudius Pulcher (-97).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Massimo Stanzione ranks 226Before him are Antonio Tempesta (1555), Francesco Granacci (1469), Taddeo di Bartolo (1362), Ugolino di Nerio (1280), Bartolomeo Carducci (1554), and Vincenzo Foppa (1427). After him are Davide Ghirlandaio (1452), Giuseppe Amisani (1881), Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841), Guariento di Arpo (1310), Giovanni Battista Crespi (1573), and Maso di Banco (1250).