# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-sittow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:51:46.492Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-sittow"
name: "Michael Sittow"
slug: "michael-sittow"
description: "Michael Sittow, also known as Master Michiel, Michel Sittow, Michiel, Miguel Sithium, and several other variants, was a painter from Reval (Tallinn), now capital of Estonia, who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. For most of his life, Sittow worked as a court portrait painter, for Isabella of Castile and her Habsburg relatives in Spain and the Netherlands, and other prominent royal houses. He is considered one of the most important Netherlandish painters of the era."
tagline: "Painter who worked in Tallinn (1459-1525)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1459"
deathDate: "1525-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.18351733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Michael Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل سيتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Міхель Зітаў"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sittow"
    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μίχαελ Σίττοβ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sittow"
    title: "Michael Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sittow"
    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sittow"
    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sittow"
    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل سیتوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sittow"
    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sittow"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sittow"
    title: "Michael Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sittow"
    title: "Michael Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ミケル・シトウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sittow"
    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sittow"
    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sittow"
    title: "Michel Sittow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sittow"
    title: "Michael Sittow"
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    title: "Michel Sittow"
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    title: "Michael Sittow"
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    title: "Зиттов, Михель"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump