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Silvestro Lega

1826 - 1895

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Silvestro Lega (8 December 1826 – 21 September 1895) was an Italian realist painter. He was one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli and was also involved with the Mazzini movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Silvestro Lega is the 1,678th most popular painter (down from 1,589th in 2019). (down from 3,507th in 2019)

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Among painters, Silvestro Lega ranks 1,678 out of 2,023Before him are Thomas Moran, Karl Madsen, Adolph Gottlieb, Eugene Lanceray, Juan Luna, and Janko Alexy. After him are Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, Wilhelm Camphausen, Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Oton Iveković, and Peter Michal Bohúň.

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Among people born in 1826, Silvestro Lega ranks 53Before him are Mohamed Sherif Pasha, August Ahlqvist, Adile Sultan, Mariano Ignacio Prado, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Domenico Morelli. After him are Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Friedrich Chrysander, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Henry Clifton Sorby, José María Medina, and Sereno Watson. Among people deceased in 1895, Silvestro Lega ranks 78Before him are L. L. Langstroth, Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, and Heinrich von Sybel. After him are Louise Otto-Peters, Bertha Valerius, Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Walter Q. Gresham, Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, and Peter Hardeman Burnett.

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