Piero di Cosimo

Piero di Cosimo, named after his teacher, Cosimo Rosselli, actually: Piero di Lorenzo (c. 1462 in Florence, † 1521 same place ), was an Italian painter and draftsman of the Renaissance.

Life and work

Piero di Cosimo was the son of a goldsmith Lorenzo di Piero d' Antonio and pupil and assistant of Cosimo Rosselli, with whom he has worked together in Rome on the frescoes of " The Passage of the Red Sea " and " Sermon on the Mount " in the Sistine Chapel. About Piero's life, there is little valid information. The write-ups of his works are often controversial.

In Cosimo's work, the development of Florentine painting in the period of transition between the 15th and the 16th century seems to reflect. Thus, influences of Filippino Lippi, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli and Leonardo in particular and the Milan school in general can be seen. He influenced notable artists in subsequent periods, including Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo da Pontormo, Franciabigio and other eminent masters.

Giorgio Vasari, the art critic of the Renaissance, described him as difficult and eccentric people. Unconventional are his mythological pictures with their often unusual and offbeat topics. His most interesting creations are some mythological compositions ( story of Perseus in the Uffizi at Florence, Venus, Cupid and Mars in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie ). Besides these pictures he painted other religious symbols, a number of altarpieces and portraits. In his painting he differs from his Florentine contemporaries with its warm colors, a trained Leonardo treatment of light and shade and a close study of nature.

Works (selection)

None of the pictures Piero di Cosimo 's hand dated or signed.

  • Portraits of Francesco Giuliano di Sangallo and Giamberti, 1482, diptych, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam,
  • Venus, Mars and Cupid, ~ 1505 State Art Collections, Berlin
  • Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, Musée Condé, Chantilly
  • The hl. Family with John boy, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden; Tondo
  • Perseus frees Andromeda, ~ 1515, Uffizi, Florence; Spalliera or Cassonebild;
  • From Prometheus, ~ 1487-89, 2 plates, Alte Pinakothek, Munich and Musée des Beaux -Arts, Strasbourg
  • Death of Procris, ~ 1688-1510, National Gallery, London
  • Battle between Lapiths and Centaurs, ~ 1500-1515, National Gallery, London; Spalliera or Cassonebild
  • Scenes from the early history of mankind, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Madonna and Child with a Dove, the so-called doves Madonna, Louvre, Paris
  • Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John, Musée des Beaux -Arts, Strasbourg
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