Piero di Cosimo

Eccentricity and Delight

von Sarah Blake McHam

240 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Renaissance Lives
• Themen: Kunst Themen und Techniken Kunstgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781789148428
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2024
• Größe: 145 x 224 mm
• Verlag: Reaktion Books