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Piero Di Cosimo: Eccentricity and Delight

Piero Di Cosimo: Eccentricity and Delight

McHam, Sarah Blake

Hardcover

Series: Renaissance Lives

Art HistoryEuropean ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 1789148421
ISBN13: 9781789148428
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: Apr 26 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
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.

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