← Fame through time1600-1699
The 17th century
Whose working lives fell in the 17th 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 17th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Caravaggio22 decades - 2
Gian Lorenzo Bernini13 decades - 3
Artemisia Gentileschi18 decades - 4
Guido Reni22 decades - 5
Guercino22 decades - 6
Salvator Rosa22 decades - 7
Pietro da Cortona22 decades - 8
Elisabetta Sirani21 decades - 9
Giovanni Baglione14 decades - 10
Giovanni Lanfranco22 decades - 11
Giovanni Pietro Bellori4 decades - 12
Giovanni Battista Crespi6 decades - 13
Paolo de Matteis6 decades - 14
Pietro Tacca22 decades - 15
Ginevra Cantofoli2 decades - 16
Sisto Badalocchio10 decades - 17
Daniele Crespi0 decades - 18
Vincenzo Carducci3 decades - 19
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli4 decades - 20
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi4 decades - 21
Giacinto Gimignani7 decades - 22
Pietro Paolininot measured- - 23
Antonio Franchinot measured- - 24
Luigi Garzi16 decades - 25
Giovanni Antonio Fumianinot measured- - 26
Giovanni Battista Crescenzinot measured- - 27
Giacomo del Pò6 decades - 28Giovanni Battista Passeri6 decades
- 29
Margherita Caffinot measured- - 30
Agostino Mitellinot measured- - 31Giovanni Giacomo de Rossinot measured-
- 32
Massimiliano Soldani Benzinot measured- - 33
Antonio Gherardinot measured- - 34
Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccianot measured- - 35
Francesco Brizionot measured- - 36
Domenico Maria Muratorinot measured- - 37
Ferdinando Taccanot measured- - 38
Filippo Gagliardinot measured- - 39Pier Maria Baldinot measured-
- 40
Sebastiano Follinot measured- - 41Giovanni Battista Molanot measured-
- 42Giuseppe Rusnatinot measured-
- 43
Giovan Domenico Vinaccianot 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.