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Longest mentorship chains

Longest unbroken teacher → student successions in the Getty graph. Some chains span 500+ years.

2026-06-21T05:30:05+00:00

Longest unbroken teacher → student chains in Getty ULAN. Direction is normalized so student of, apprentice of, etc. point in the same direction as teacher of.

#1 — 33 hops · Giuliano da Sangallo (b. 1433) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#2 — 32 hops · Andrea del Verrocchio (b. 1435) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#3 — 31 hops · Andrea del Sarto (b. 1486) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#4 — 30 hops · Raffaellino del Garbo (b. 1466) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#5 — 30 hops · Giovanni Francesco Rustici (b. 1474) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#6 — 29 hops · Gillis van Everen → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#7 — 28 hops · Federico Zuccaro (b. 1536) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#8 — 28 hops · Girolamo Macchietti → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#9 — 28 hops · Wouter I Crabeth (b. 1509) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#10 — 28 hops · Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert (b. 1522) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#11 — 28 hops · Hieronymus Cock (b. 1500) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#12 — 28 hops · Dirck Crabeth (b. 1499) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#13 — 27 hops · Andrea Commodi (b. 1560) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#14 — 27 hops · Claude Dorisy (b. 1517) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#15 — 25 hops · Gerard de Jode (b. 1509) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#16 — 25 hops · Bernaert van Orley (b. 1482) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#17 — 25 hops · Antonio van Palermo (b. 1503) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#18 — 25 hops · Davide Ghirlandaio (b. 1452) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#19 — 25 hops · Jan Zielens (b. 1500) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

#20 — 25 hops · Meester van 1518 (b. 1465) → Lux Buurman (b. 1948)

Sources

  • Getty Vocabularies (ULAN) — Union List of Artist Names — biographical and relational data for artists, architects, designers, and other cultural producers.