← 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
Pope Benedict XIII20 decades - 5
Claudio Monteverdi14 decades - 6
Antonio Stradivari15 decades - 7
Pope Clement XI22 decades - 8
Pope Innocent XI22 decades - 9
Pope Clement IX20 decades - 10
Pope Alexander VII22 decades - 11
Pope Innocent XIII0 decades - 12
Pope Innocent X3 decades - 13
Tommaso Campanella22 decades - 14
Evangelista Torricelli22 decades - 15
Arcangelo Corelli20 decades - 16
Mary of Modena21 decades - 17
Guido Reni22 decades - 18
Carlo Gesualdo20 decades - 19
Giovanni Domenico Cassininot measured- - 20
Alessandro Scarlatti21 decades - 21
Joseph of Cupertino22 decades - 22
Guercino22 decades - 23
Bartolomeo Cristofori0 decades - 24
Pope Innocent XII8 decades - 25
Pope Alexander VIII0 decades - 26
Pope Clement X0 decades - 27
Elena Cornaro Piscopia0 decades - 28
Victor Amadeus I of Savoy7 decades - 29
Salvator Rosa22 decades - 30
Pietro da Cortona22 decades - 31
Girolamo Frescobaldi17 decades - 32
Raimondo, Prince Montecuccolinot measured- - 33
Gregorio Allegri16 decades - 34
Elisabetta Sirani21 decades - 35
Marcello Malpighi5 decades - 36
Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy14 decades - 37
Guarino Guarini22 decades - 38
Francesco Cavalli22 decades - 39
Giovanni Baglione14 decades - 40
Claudia de' Medici14 decades - 41
Giovanni Lanfranco22 decades - 42Benedetta Carlini0 decades
- 43Giacomo Carissimi0 decades
- 44
Giovanni Pietro Bellori4 decades - 45
Carlo Rainaldi20 decades - 46Giovanni Ceva9 decades
- 47
Filippo Baldinucci22 decades - 48
Giovanni Battista Crespi6 decades - 49
Paolo de Matteis6 decades - 50
Giovanni Branca20 decades - 51
Pietro Tacca22 decades - 52
Ginevra Cantofoli2 decades - 53
Sisto Badalocchio10 decades - 54
Ferdinando Galli-Bibienanot measured- - 55
Daniele Crespi0 decades - 56
Girolamo Rainaldi0 decades - 57Antonio Sartorio5 decades
- 58
Vincenzo Carducci3 decades - 59
Carlo Cesare Malvasia15 decades - 60
Domenico Martinelli14 decades - 61
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli4 decades - 62
Leon of Modena3 decades - 63
Orazio Grassi0 decades - 64
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi4 decades - 65Amedeo di Castellamonte0 decades
- 66
Giacinto Gimignani7 decades - 67Agostino Barelli0 decades
- 68
Pietro Paolininot measured- - 69
Onorio Longhinot measured- - 70
Giacomo Torellinot measured- - 71Carlo Antonio Carlone0 decades
- 72
Antonio Franchinot measured- - 73
Giovanni Battista Trevanonot measured- - 74
Luigi Garzi16 decades - 75
Giovanni Antonio Fumianinot measured- - 76Carlo Luragonot measured-
- 77
Mattia de Rossi16 decades - 78
Giovanni Battista Crescenzinot measured- - 79
Martino Longhi the Youngernot measured- - 80
Giacomo del Pò6 decades - 81Giovanni Battista Passeri6 decades
- 82
Francesco Galli Bibienanot measured- - 83
Tommaso Napoli0 decades - 84
Bartolomeo Bianco0 decades - 85
Pompeo Ferrarinot measured- - 86
Margherita Caffinot measured- - 87
Nicola Sabbatininot measured- - 88
Galeazzo Gualdo Prioratonot measured- - 89
Luigi Bernininot measured- - 90Giovanni Battista Contininot measured-
- 91
Gherardo Silvani0 decades - 92
Giulio Pariginot measured- - 93Dionisio Lazzarinot measured-
- 94
Agostino Mitellinot measured- - 95Giovanni Giacomo de Rossinot measured-
- 96
Giovanni Battista Sorianot measured- - 97
Massimiliano Soldani Benzinot measured- - 98
Giovanni Battista Faldanot measured- - 99Giovan Antonio de' Rossinot measured-
- 100
Antonio Gherardinot 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.