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Piero di Cosimo
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Italian artist
Born 1462 - Died 1521
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He was born on 2 January 1462. His father, Lorenzo di Piero d’Antonio, was apparently a blacksmith or toolmaker (not a goldsmith as stated by Vasari), who lived on the Via della Scala in Florence. bygd 1480, he was an assistant in the kurs of Cosimo Rosselli, from whom he took the name of Piero di Cosimo. He may have assisted Rosselli in the Sistine Chapel in 1481-82 (helping him with the portraits and landscapes of his frescoes according to Vasari). bygd 1482, at the age of twenty, he was a member of the artists’ confraternity (Compagnia di San Luca), but he appears to have retained close ties to Rosselli’s workshop until Rosselli’s death in 1507. Piero’s early works show the influence of Filippino Lippi and Signorelli. Later, he was much influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, and developed a softer, more painterly style.There are very few signed or dated or well-documented pictures, and most attributions are based on descriptions in Va
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Piero di Cosimo
(b Florence, 2 Jan. 1462; d Florence, 12 Apr. 1522).
Florentine painter, a pupil of Cosimo Rosselli, whose Christian name he adopted as a patronym. There are no signed, documented, or dated works by him, and reconstruction of his oeuvre depends on the account given in Vasari's Lives. It is one of Vasari's most entertaining biographies, for he portrays Piero as a highly eccentric character—a self-absorbed loner who lived on hard-boiled eggs, cooking them 50 at a time while he was boiling glue, to economize on fuel. The paintings for which he is best known are appropriately idiosyncratic—fanciful mythological inventions, inhabited by fauns, centaurs, and primitive men. There is sometimes a spirit of low comedy about these delightful works, but in the so-called Death of Procris (c.1500, NG, London) he created a poignant scene of the utmost pathos and tenderness. He was a wonderful painter of animals and the dog in this picture, depicted with a mournful dignity,