Artist: Piero Di Cosimo (1462 - 1521)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Florentine School
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Pupil of Cosimo Rosselli, Piero traveled to Rome with his teacher in 1482 to assist with the Sistine Chapel frescoes. It was during this time that di Cosimo became entranced with the mythology and religious imagery that his later work consisted of. Piero di Cosimo was later influenced by Signorelli and Leonardo da Vinci. His personal character and his paintings were deemed unusual by his colleagues. He became a recluse and followed a strict diet of hard-boiled eggs.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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The Young Saint John the Baptist Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo) (Italian, Florentine, 1462-1522)Tempera
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The Return from the Hunt, ca. 1505–7 Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo) (Italian, Florentine,
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A Hunting Scene Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo) (Italian, Florentine, 1462-1522)Tempera and oil transferred
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Piero di Cosimo - Allegory c. 1500 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Adam; Eve Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini (Italian, Florentine, 1475-1554)Oil on canvas; Each 26
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Portrait of a Woman Piero del Pollaiuolo (Piero di Jacopo Benci) (Italian, Florentine, born about
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Piero di Cosimo - Madonna with Child and the Young St. John c. 1505-1510 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum Italian
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Piero di Cosimo - Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels c. 1520 oil on wood panel Philbrook Museum of Art Italian
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Piero di Cosimo - The Nativity with the Infant Saint John c. 1500 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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A Young Man, fragment, ca. 1460 Cosimo Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) (Italian, Ferrarese,
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Piero di Cosimo - The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot c. 1490 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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The Flight into Egypt, probably early 1470s Cosimo Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) (Italian,
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Agnolo Bronzino - Portrait of Cosimo I de'Medici as Orpheus c. 1538-40 oil on panel Philadelphia Museum of Art Italian
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Piero Dorazio, jnd (just noticeable difference), 1964
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Bronzino - Portrait of Piero de' Medici ('The Gouty') 1550-1570 oil on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Saint Louis of Toulouse Cosimo Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) (Italian, Ferrarese, active by
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Bronzino - Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany before 1574 oil on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, pl. 14 from Memorial exercises for Cosimo de" Medici, 19th century
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Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, pl. 13 from Memorial exercises for Cosimo de" Medici, 19th century
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Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, pl. 15 from Memorial exercises for Cosimo de" Medici, 19th century
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Nicolas Martinez, Cellini Bust of Cosimo de Medici, 19th century
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Madonna and Child, ca. 1485 Filippino Lippi (Italian, Florentine, probably born 1457, died 1504)Tempera, oil,
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Portrait of a Man, ca. 1481-82 Cosimo Rosselli (Italian, Florentine, 1440-1507)Tempera on wood; 20 3/8
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Filippo Baldinucci, Cominciamento e progresso dell" arte dell" intagliare in rame äby Filippo Baldinucci (Florence: Piero Matini, 1686), 1686
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist, ca. 1510-15 Giuliano
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Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1497 Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo
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Filippo Baldinucci, Title page vignette in the book Cominciamento e progresso dell" arte dell" intagliare in rame äby Filippo Baldinucci (Florence: Piero Matini, 1686), 1686
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Madonna and Child with Angels Cosimo Rosselli (Italian, Florentine, 1440-1507)Tempera and gold on wood; 33
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Cosimo I de" Medici (1519-1574) Workshop of Bronzino (Italian, Florentine, 1503-1572)Oil on wood; 37 3/4
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Piero Manzoni - Achrome 1962 fiberglass on velvet The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Piero della Francesca - The Crucifixion n.d. tempera on panel The Frick Collection Italian
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Lorenzo di Piero di Giovanni Vecchietta - The Resurrection 1472 bronze relief The Frick Collection Italian
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Portrait of a Young Man, 1530s Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, Florentine, 1503-1572)Oil
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Piero della Francesca - St. John the Evangelist 1454-69 tempera on panel The Frick Collection Italian
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Lorenzo (Piero di Giovanni) Monaco - Virgin Annunciate c. 1410-1415 Tempera and gold lea Norton Simon Museum Italian
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David, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Abraham, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Noah, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Moses, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Piero Manzoni - Line 1000 Meters Long 1961 chrome-plated metal The Museum of Modern Art Italian

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (4)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Comparable only to the Cini Collection in Venice in its breadth and scope, the collection formed by Robert Lehman originally comprised some 145 pieces, representing all of the major schools of Italian manuscript production – Umbria, Tuscany, Emili...
National Gallery of Art: The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici
The masterly technique of these remarkable artists, combined with freshness and originality of style, has had a lasting influence on the art of naturalistic painting, said Earl A. Powell III, ...
Frick Collection: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art
While the collection of the Toledo Museum is considered encyclopedic, the works included in the exhibition will emphasize the period from the early Italian Renaissance to late nineteenth-century France. The selection will notably complement the h...
Rice Unversity Art Gallery: A Site-Specific Large-Scale Installation by British Artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey
Their medium is nature itself - thousands of grass blades provide a highly uniform light-sensitive surface that is used to create a unique form of photography. Nurtured in carefully controlled light conditions, young grass has a remarkable capac...

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