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Art Geniuses vs Literature Geniuses

From canvas to page — comparing history's greatest artists and writers.

Art Geniuses

28 Geniuses Avg IQ: 0 Max IQ: 0 Top: United States
Alphonse de Lamartine
Mâcon
Amartya Sen
Shantiniketan
Arthur Compton
Wooster
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Schopenhauer
Danzig (Gdańsk)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
6 Merrion Street
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Copenhagen
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Seville
Christoph Martin Wieland
Achstetten
Cormac McCarthy
Providence
Harriet Martineau
Norwich
Jean-Paul Sartre
Paris
John Stuart Mill
Pentonville
Lycurgus of Sparta
Martha Argerich
Buenos Aires
Martha Graham
Allegheny (later Pittsburgh)
Martin Gardner
Tulsa
Martin Heidegger
Meßkirch
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Wernigerode
Martin Luther
Eisleben
Martin Luther King Jr.
Atlanta
Meister Eckhart
near Gotha
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ajaccio
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Brescia
Nicolaas Hartsoeker
Gouda
René Descartes
La Haye en Touraine
William Hogarth
London
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Salzburg
VS

Literature Geniuses

3 Geniuses Avg IQ: 0 Max IQ: 0 Top: France
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
Paris
James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
Ednam
John Harington (writer)
Kelston

Analysis: Art vs Literature

MetricArtLiterature
Total Geniuses283
Average IQ00
Highest IQ00
Lowest IQ00
IQ Data Available0 of 280 of 3
Top CountryUnited StatesFrance

Literature geniuses have a comparable average IQ by 0 points. The art group is larger with more recorded geniuses in our database.

Häufige Fragen

Who has a higher average IQ — Art or Literature geniuses?

Literature geniuses have a higher average IQ (0) compared to 0 for the other group.

How many art geniuses are there compared to literature geniuses?

Our database includes 28 art geniuses and 3 literature geniuses.

What is the highest IQ among art geniuses?

The highest recorded IQ among art geniuses in our database is 0.