# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-de-tolnay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:21:24.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-de-tolnay"
name: "Charles de Tolnay"
slug: "charles-de-tolnay"
description: "Charles de Tolnay, born Károly von Tolnai, was a Hungarian art historian and an expert on Northern Renaissance art and, latterly, Michelangelo. According to Erwin Panofsky, he was \"one of the most brilliant art historians\" of his time. From 1939 he was based in the United States, where he became a citizen in 1945. After some years each at Princeton and Columbia, he headed the Casa Buonarroti in Florence from 1965."
tagline: "Hungarian art historian (1899-1981)"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1899-05-27"
deathDate: "1981-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.67753866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Шарль де Тольне"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شارل دى تولنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Charles de Tolnay"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Tolnay"
    title: "Charles de Tolnay"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Tolnay"
    title: "Charles de Tolnay"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolnay_K%C3%A1roly_(m%C5%B1v%C3%A9szett%C3%B6rt%C3%A9n%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "Tolnay Károly (művészettörténész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Tolnay"
    title: "Charles de Tolnay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "샤를 드 톨네이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Tolnay"
    title: "Charles de Tolnay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Tolnay"
    title: "Charles de Tolnay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тольнай, Шарль де"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214302"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump