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.
| ISBN: | 9781789148428 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2024 |
| Author: | Sarah Blake McHam |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Renaissance Lives |
| Genres: |
History of art |