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Top 100 Painters in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest painters in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 248 painters tracked in Italy, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo and Michelangelo lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 5.7M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 184k, and the largest, Leonardo da Vinci, reaches around 2.2M people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each painter, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Italy, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Leonardo da Vinci 2.2M 44.1 60.1% Painter
2 Frida Kahlo 1.9M 44.0 71.6% Painter
3 Michelangelo 1.6M 46.4 64.3% Painter
4 Andy Warhol 898k 46.3 52.2% Painter
5 Vincent van Gogh 768k 43.3 63.6% Painter
6 Keith Haring 666k 46.4 52.0% Painter
7 Raphael 514k 47.6 63.1% Painter
8 Giorgione 475k 39.1 46.3% Painter
9 Pablo Picasso 368k 39.9 61.8% Painter
10 Claude Monet 287k 45.0 62.9% Painter
11 Lucio Fontana 276k 48.7 56.5% Painter
12 Francis Bacon 266k 42.5 55.9% Painter
13 Rembrandt 261k 40.9 59.5% Painter
14 Andrea Pazienza 245k 41.5 51.5% Painter
15 Paul Klee 226k 45.7 59.3% Painter
16 Marc Chagall 221k 47.9 55.6% Painter
17 Gustav Klimt 221k 44.4 73.0% Painter
18 William Blake 213k 46.6 59.4% Painter
19 Leonora Carrington 208k 35.6 62.9% Painter
20 Paul Gauguin 185k 45.8 64.3% Painter
21 Jeff Koons 184k 43.6 44.4% Painter
22 Joan Miró 177k 48.8 71.5% Painter
23 Canaletto 173k 44.5 65.4% Painter
24 Mark Rothko 172k 43.9 54.7% Painter
25 John Wayne Gacy 165k Painter

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy and ranks each painter by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest painter in Italy?

Leonardo da Vinci currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.2M people in Italy.

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