Popularity ranking · Italy

The 100 most popular 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 5.4M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 189k, and the largest, Leonardo da Vinci, reaches around 2.1M 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 John Wayne Gacy 167k Painter
27 Max Ernst 163k 45.1 100.0% Painter
28 Jackson Pollock 161k 48.0 50.4% Painter
29 Canaletto 161k 44.5 65.4% Painter
30 Henri Matisse 158k 47.1 63.4% Painter
31 Pinturicchio 157k 42.3 52.7% Painter
32 Salvador Dalí 148k 43.1 57.7% Painter
33 Edgar Degas 142k 44.7 68.3% Painter
34 Hieronymus Bosch 141k 39.7 47.5% Painter
35 Damien Hirst 141k 46.1 43.1% Painter
36 Sandro Botticelli 138k 41.0 60.4% Painter
37 VASARI 137k 47.7 100.0% Painter
38 Jacques-Louis David 133k 45.7 92.1% Painter
39 Titian 129k 39.4 59.4% Painter
40 Gerhard Richter 118k 48.7 72.1% Painter
41 Edvard Munch 111k 42.5 63.4% Painter
42 Caspar David Friedrich 108k Painter
43 Giorgio Vasari 105k 47.9 62.7% Painter
44 Francisco Goya 103k 41.3 73.5% Painter
45 Kazimir Malevich 99k 40.5 53.8% Painter
46 Roy Lichtenstein 99k 43.3 49.1% Painter
47 Sebastião Salgado 98k 46.6 57.8% Painter
48 Andrea Mantegna 97k 44.8 61.3% Painter
49 Anthony van Dyck 94k 44.9 47.6% Painter
50 Norman Rockwell 93k 48.1 65.1% Painter

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular painters 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 2.1M people in Italy.

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