Who Was Alive

Caravaggio

Italian painter

Born 29 September 1571 · died 18 July 1610, aged 38

Who was alive at the same time as Caravaggio?

  1. Mimar Sinan
  2. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  3. Ivan the Terrible
  4. Michel de Montaigne
  5. Elizabeth I of England
  6. Francis Drake
  7. El Greco
  8. Akbar
  9. Miguel de Cervantes
  10. Tycho Brahe
  11. Giordano Bruno
  12. Francis Bacon
  13. Lope de Vega
  14. Galileo Galilei
  15. William Shakespeare
  16. Caravaggio
  17. Johannes Kepler
  18. Peter Paul Rubens
  19. Thomas Hobbes
  20. René Descartes
  21. Diego Velázquez
  22. Oliver Cromwell
  23. Rembrandt
  24. John Milton
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Caravaggio was born, William Shakespeare was 7, Galileo Galilei was 7, Francis Bacon was 10, Elizabeth I of England was 38 and Akbar was 28.

When Caravaggio died, William Shakespeare was 46, Galileo Galilei was 46, René Descartes was 14, Rembrandt was 4 and Francis Bacon was 49.

Born during Caravaggio’s lifetime: René Descartes, Rembrandt, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velázquez, Thomas Hobbes, John Milton and Oliver Cromwell.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo died 7 years before Caravaggio was born, Molière was born 12 years after Caravaggio died, Blaise Pascal was born 13 years after Caravaggio died and Jacques Cartier died 14 years before Caravaggio was born.

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All 49 contemporaries we track

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  8. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  9. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  10. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  11. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  12. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  13. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  14. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  15. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  18. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  19. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  20. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  21. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  22. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  23. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  24. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  25. Luís de Camões 1524–1525 – 1580
  26. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  27. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  28. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  29. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  30. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  31. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  32. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  33. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  34. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  35. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  36. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  37. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  38. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  39. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  40. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  41. Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  42. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
  43. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  44. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  45. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  46. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  47. Pius V 1504 – 1572
  48. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  49. Urban VIII 1568 – 1644