Piero di Cosimo
eccentricity and delight
- ISBN: 9781789148428
- Editorial: Reaktion Books Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Colección: Renaissance Lives
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 240
- Idiomas: Inglés
An original survey of the Renaissance painter's life and work.
This book is a concise survey of the life of the Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) within his social and cultural surroundings. Delving into the artist's deliberately idiosyncratic life, the book shows how di Cosimo chose to live in squalor-eating nothing but boiled eggs cooked fifty at a time in his painting glue. Sarah Blake McHam shows how the artist became a favorite among sophisticated patrons eager for pagan artworks featuring Greco-Roman mythological subjects as well as orthodox, but never ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings. The result is a newly accessible introduction to the life of this important Renaissance artist.
1. Mythologies
2. Legendary Subjects
3. Portraits
4. Altarpieces
5. Private Devotional Paintings
6. Piero's Artistic Legacy
