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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sarah Blake McHam is Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and author of Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the 'Natural History' (2013).

Zusammenfassung

An original, accessible survey of Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sarah Blake Mcham, McHam Sarah Blake
• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781789148428
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-842-8
• Seiten: 240
• Serie: Renaissance Lives
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Allgemeines, Lexika; ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, Renaissance art, Individual artists, art monographs, European history: Renaissance, ART / History / European / Renaissance