Piero di Cosimo: Eccentricity and Delight (Renaissance Lives)

By: McHam, Sarah Blake

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789148421
• ISBN13: 9781789148428
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"