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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 192k, 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
26 Mark Rothko 172k 43.9 54.7% Painter
27 John Wayne Gacy 165k Painter
28 Jackson Pollock 164k 48.0 50.4% Painter
29 Henri Matisse 161k 47.1 63.4% Painter
30 Max Ernst 160k 45.1 100.0% Painter
31 Edgar Degas 146k 44.7 68.3% Painter
32 Damien Hirst 145k 46.1 43.1% Painter
33 Hieronymus Bosch 144k 39.7 47.5% Painter
34 Pinturicchio 142k 42.3 52.7% Painter
35 Sandro Botticelli 136k 41.0 60.4% Painter
36 VASARI 135k 47.7 100.0% Painter
37 Gerhard Richter 135k 48.7 72.1% Painter
38 David Hockney 133k 34.3 49.8% Painter
39 Titian 132k 39.4 59.4% Painter
40 Jacques-Louis David 131k 45.7 92.1% Painter
41 Edvard Munch 123k 42.5 63.4% Painter
42 René Magritte 114k 43.1 45.5% Painter
43 Caspar David Friedrich 107k Painter
44 Francisco Goya 105k 41.3 73.5% Painter
45 Andrea Mantegna 102k 44.8 61.3% Painter
46 Roy Lichtenstein 102k 43.3 49.1% Painter
47 Giorgio Vasari 102k 47.9 62.7% Painter
48 Kazimir Malevich 97k 40.5 53.8% Painter
49 Anthony van Dyck 93k 44.9 47.6% Painter
50 Norman Rockwell 92k 48.1 65.1% 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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