Piero Di Cosimo: Eccentricity and Delight

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.

Author: Sarah Blake McHam
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 04/26/2024
Series: Renaissance Lives
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.51w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781789148428