← 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
Diego Velázquez20 decades - 2
Francisco de Zurbarán12 decades - 3
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo20 decades - 4
Jusepe de Ribera18 decades - 5
Alonso Cano22 decades - 6
Juan Carreño de Miranda16 decades - 7
Juan de Valdés Leal16 decades - 8
Antonio Palomino22 decades - 9
Josefa de Óbidosnot measured- - 10
Claudio Coello22 decades - 11
Luisa Roldán4 decades - 12
Juan Martínez Montañés15 decades - 13
Gregorio Fernández14 decades - 14
Juan de Pareja19 decades - 15
Pedro De Mena21 decades - 16
Antonio de Pereda17 decades - 17
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo4 decades - 18
Francisco Herrera the Elder1 decades - 19
Jorge Manuel Theocupulus5 decades - 20
Francisco Rizi18 decades - 21
Juan van der Hamen1 decades - 22
Pedro Roldán14 decades - 23
Mateo Cerezo21 decades - 24
Juan de Zurbarán1 decades - 25
Luis Tristán13 decades
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.