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    Piero di Cosimo was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in Florence in the late 15th century. He was known for his mythological and allegorical paintings which featured hybrid human-animal figures and dense forests. Piero was influenced by Netherlandish realism and trained under Cosimo Rosselli, assisting him on frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. He had a reputation for eccentricity. In his later years, Piero turned to religious works under the influence of the preacher Savonarola. Some of his most famous works include The Death of Procris and Perseus Rescuing Andromeda.

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    Piero di Cosimo

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    Not to be confused with Piero di Cosimo de' Medici.

    The Death of Procris, c. 1495

    Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, oil on canvas, 1510 or 1513, Uffizi.

    Tritons and Nereids (1500), oil on panel, 37 x158 cm, Milano, Altomani collection.
    Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462[1] � 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di
    Lorenzo, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.

    He is most famous for the mythological and allegorical subjects he painted in the
    late Quattrocento; he is said to have abandoned these to return to religious
    subjects under the influence of Savonarola, the preacher who exercised a huge sway
    in Florence in the 1490s, and had a similar effect on Botticelli. The High
    Renaissance style of the new century had little influence on him, and he retained
    the straightforward realism of his figures, which combines with an often whimsical
    treatment of his subjects to create the distinctive mood of his works. Vasari has
    many stories of his eccentricity, and the mythological subjects have an individual
    and quirky fascination.[2]

    He trained under Cosimo Rosselli, whose daughter he married, and assisted him in
    his Sistine Chapel frescos. He was also influenced by Early Netherlandish painting,
    and busy landscapes feature in many works, often forests seen close at hand.
    Several of his most striking secular works are in the long "landscape" format used
    for paintings inset into cassone wedding chests or spalliera headboards or
    panelling. He was apparently famous for designing the temporary decorations for
    Carnival and other festivities.

    Contents
    1 Biography
    2 Selected works
    3 Gallery
    4 References
    5 External links
    Biography

    Young St John the Baptist, 1490s


    The son of a goldsmith, Lorenzo di Piero, Piero was born in Florence and
    apprenticed under the artist Cosimo Rosseli, from whom he derived his popular name
    and whom he assisted in the painting of the Sistine Chapel in 1481.

    In the first phase of his career, Piero was influenced by the Netherlandish
    naturalism of Hugo van der Goes, whose Portinari Triptych (now at the Uffizi
    Gallery in Florence) helped to lead the whole of Florentine painting into new
    channels. From him, most probably, Cosimo acquired the love of landscape and the
    intimate knowledge of the growth of flowers and of animal life. The manner of Hugo
    van der Goes is especially apparent in the Adoration of the Shepherds, at the
    Berlin Museum.

    He journeyed to Rome in 1482 with his master, Rosselli. He proved himself a true
    child of the Renaissance by depicting subjects of Classical mythology in such
    pictures as Venus, Mars, and Cupid, The Death of Procris, the Perseus and Andromeda
    series, at the Uffizi, and many others. Inspired to the Vitruvius' account of the
    evolution of man, Piero's mythical compositions show the bizarre presence of hybrid
    forms of men and animals, or the man learning to use fire and tools. The multitudes
    of nudes in these works shows the influence of Luca Signorelli on Piero's art.

    During his lifetime, Piero acquired a reputation for eccentricity�a reputation


    enhanced and exaggerated by later commentators such as Giorgio Vasari, who included
    a biography of Piero di Cosimo in his Lives of the Artists.[3] Reportedly, he was
    frightened of thunderstorms, and so pyrophobic that he rarely cooked his food; he
    lived on a diet of hard-boiled eggs, which he prepared 50 at a time while boiling
    glue for his artworks.[4][5][6] He also resisted any cleaning of his studio, or
    trimming of the fruit trees of his orchard; he lived, wrote Vasari, "more like a
    beast than a man".

    If, as Vasari asserts, he spent the last years of his life in gloomy retirement,
    the change was probably due to preacher Girolamo Savonarola, under whose influence
    he turned his attention once more to religious art. The death of his master Roselli
    may also have affected Piero's morose elder years. The Immaculate Conception with
    Saints, at the Uffizi, and the Holy Family, at Dresden, illustrate the religious
    fervour to which he was stimulated by Savonarola.

    With the exception of the landscape background in Rosselli's fresco of the Sermon
    on the Mount, in the Sistine Chapel, there is no record of any fresco work from his
    brush. On the other hand, Piero enjoyed a great reputation as a portrait painter:
    the most famous of his work is in fact the portrait of a Florentine noblewoman,
    Simonetta Vespucci, mistress of Giuliano de' Medici. According to Vasari, Piero
    excelled in designing pageants and triumphal processions for the pleasure-loving
    youths of Florence, and gives a vivid description of one such procession at the end
    of the carnival of 1507, which illustrated the triumph of death. Piero di Cosimo
    exercised considerable influence upon his fellow pupils Albertinelli and Bartolomeo
    della Porta, and was the master of Andrea del Sarto.

    Vasari gave Piero's date of death as 1521, and this date is still repeated by many
    sources, including the Encyclop�dia Britannica.[7] However, contemporary documents
    reveal that he died of plague on 12 April 1522.[8] He is featured in George Eliot's
    novel Romola.

    Selected works
    Madonna and Child Enthroned with Sts. Peter, John the Baptist, Dominic, and
    Nicholas of Bari (1481�85) tempera and oil on panel, St. Louis Art Museum, St.
    Louis, Missouri

    Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints


    Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (c. 1480) Oil on panel, 57 x 42 cm, Mus�e Cond�,
    Chantilly, France
    The Visitation with Saints Nicholas and Anthony (1489�1490) Wood, 184 x 189,
    National Gallery of Art, Washington
    Venus, Mars, and Cupid (1490) Wood panel, 72 x 182 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
    Vulcan and Aeolus (c. 1490) Oil and tempera on canvas, National Gallery of Canada,
    Ottawa
    St Mary Magdalene (1490s) Tempera on panel, 72,5 x 76 cm, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte
    Antica, Rome
    Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria (1493) Oil on panel, Ospedale
    degli Innocenti, Florence
    Jason and Queen Hypsipyle with the Women of Lemnos (ca 1499) Private Collection[9]
    Tritons and Nereids, Oil on Panel, 37x158 cm, Milan, Altomani collection
    Allegory (1500) Panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington
    The Nativity with The Infant St. John (c.1500) Oil on panel, National Gallery of
    Art, Washington
    St. John the Evangelest (1504�06) Oil on panel, Honolulu Museum of Art
    The Discovery of Honey (c. 1505�1510) Oil on panel, Art Museum, Worcester,
    Massachusetts
    The Finding of Vulcan on Lemnos (1495�1505) Oil and tempera on canvas, Wadsworth
    Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
    Perseus Freeing Andromeda (c. 1515) Oil on wood, 70 x 123 cm, Uffizi, Florence
    Portraits of Giuliano and Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo (c. 1485) Diptych, wood
    panel, 47,5 x 33,5 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
    The Death of Procris (c. 1500) Oil on panel, 65 x 183 cm, National Gallery, London
    Virgin with Child, St. John the Baptist and an Angel (c. 1500�1510) Oil on panel,
    diameter 129 cm, S�o Paulo Museum of Art, S�o Paulo
    The Adoration of the Christ Child (1505) Oil on wood, Galleria Borghese, Rome
    The Forest Fire (c. 1505) Oil on panel, 71 x 202 cm, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
    Immaculate Conception with Saints (c. 1510 or c. 1498) Wood panel, 206 x 172 cm,
    Uffizi, Florence
    The Misfortunes of Silenus (c.1505�1510) Oil on panel, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
    Massachusetts
    The Myth of Prometheus (1515) Oil on panel, Alte Pinakothek, Munich and Mus�e des
    Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
    The Building of a Palace (1515�20) oil on panel, 83 x 197 cm, Ringling Museum of
    Art, Sarasota, Florida
    Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels (c.1520) oil on wood panel, Philbrook
    Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma

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