← Fame through time1500-1599
The 16th century
Whose working lives fell in the 16th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 16th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Michelangelo22 decades - 2
Raphael22 decades - 3
Titian22 decades - 4
Giorgio Vasari22 decades - 5
Tintoretto22 decades - 6
Giuseppe Arcimboldo4 decades - 7
Paolo Veronese22 decades - 8
Sofonisba Anguissola19 decades - 9
Isabella d'Estenot measured- - 10
Giorgione22 decades - 11
Pontormo22 decades - 12
Antonio da Correggio22 decades - 13
Annibale Carracci22 decades - 14
Parmigianino22 decades - 15
Vittore Carpaccio22 decades - 16
Giulio Romano22 decades - 17
Lavinia Fontana22 decades - 18
Il Sodoma0 decades - 19
Rosso Fiorentino19 decades - 20
Federico Barocci22 decades - 21
Federico Zuccari22 decades - 22
Marcantonio Raimondi22 decades - 23
Cigoli15 decades - 24
Andrea Sansovino22 decades - 25
Bramantino22 decades - 26
Gian Paolo Lomazzo3 decades - 27
Taddeo Zuccari22 decades - 28
Pietro Bernini0 decades - 29Ascanio Condivi22 decades
- 30
Leone Leoni0 decades - 31
Girolamo Genga5 decades - 32
Girolamo da Carpi22 decades - 33
Raffaello da Montelupo22 decades - 34
Antonio Campi22 decades - 35
Girolamo da Treviso the Younger20 decades - 36
Francesco Vanni22 decades - 37
Vincenzo Danti20 decades - 38
Cesare Cesariano22 decades - 39
Lorenzettonot measured- - 40
Bastiano Mainardi0 decades - 41
Niccolò Circignani0 decades - 42
Baccio da Montelupo21 decades - 43
Ugo da Carpi21 decades - 44
Guglielmo della Porta0 decades - 45
Lelio Orsi21 decades - 46
Bastiano da Sangallo5 decades - 47
Antonello Gagininot measured- - 48
Francesco da Sangallo19 decades - 49
Agostino Busti0 decades - 50
Jacopo da Trezzonot measured- - 51
Scarsellinonot measured- - 52
Alessandro Casolaninot measured- - 53
Vincenzo de' Rossinot measured- - 54
Raffaellino da Reggionot measured- - 55
Giovanni Battista Caccininot measured- - 56
Giovanni Battista Trottinot measured- - 57
Francesco Xanto Avellinot measured- - 58
Girolamo Santacrocenot measured- - 59Tiberio Calcagninot measured-
- 60
Taddeo Landininot measured- - 61
Tommaso Vincidornot measured- - 62
Simone Moschinonot measured- - 63
Pietro Paolo Agabitonot measured- - 64Camillo Camillianinot measured-
- 65
Giuseppe Valerianonot measured- - 66
Giuseppe Medanot measured- - 67
Vincenzo Civerchionot measured- - 68
Antonio Maria Vianinot measured- - 69Giovanni Battista de'Cavalierinot measured-
- 70
Simone Moscanot measured- - 71
Giovanni Guerranot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.