Piero di Cosimo - Biography

Painter, born in Florence, NC Italy. He was a pupil of Cosimo Rosselli, whose name he adopted. His later style was influenced by Signorelli and Leonardo da Vinci, and among his best-known works are ‘The Death of Procris’ (c.1500, National Gallery, London) and ‘The Rescue of Andromeda’ (c.1515, Uffizi).

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Piero di Cosimo (also known as Piero di Lorenzo) (January 2, 1462–April 12, 1522) was an Italian painter.

Biography

The son of a Florentine goldsmith, Piero was born in Florence and apprenticed under the artist Cosimo Rosseli, from whom he derived his popular name and whom he assisted in the painting of the Sistine Chapel in 1481.

In the first phase of his career, Piero was influenced by the Netherlandish naturalism of Hugo van der Goes, whose Portinari Triptych (now at the Spedale of Santa Maria Novella in Florence) helped to lead the whole of Florentine painting into new channels.

If, as Vasari asserts, he spent the last years of his life in gloomy retirement, the change was probably due to Savonarola, under whose influence he turned his attention once more to religious art. According to Vasari Piero excelled in designing pageants and triumphal processions for the pleasure-loving youths of Florence, and gives a vivid description of one such procession at the end of the carnival of 1507, which illustrated the triumph of death.

Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Piero di Cosimo in his Lives of the Artists.

Vasari gave Piero's date of death as 1521, and this date is still repeated by many sources, including the Encyclopedia Britannica. 1480) - Oil on panel, 57 x 42 cm, Musée Condé, Chantilly, France Story of Jason (1486) National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town The Visitation with Saints Nicholas and Anthony (1489-1490) - Wood, 184 x 189, National Gallery of Art, Washington Venus, Mars, and Cupid (1490) - Wood panel, 72 x 182 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin St. Mary Magdalene (1490s) - Tempera on panel, 72,5 x 76 cm, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria (1493) - Oil on panel, Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence Allegory (1500) - Panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington The Discovery of Honey (c. 1505-1510) - Oil on panel, Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts Vulcan and Aeolus (c. 1495-1500) - Oil and tempera on canvas, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa The Finding of Vulcan on Lemnos (1495-1505) - Oil and tempera on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Perseus Frees Andromeda - c. 1515, Oil on wood, 70 x 123 cm, Uffizi, Florence Giuliano da San Gallo (c. 1500) - Wood panel, 47,5 x 33,5 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Death of Procris (c. 1500) - Oil on panel, 65 x 183 cm, National Gallery, London The Adoration of the Christ Child (1505) - Oil on wood, Galleria Borghese, Rome Immaculate Conception with Saints (c. 1505) - Wood panel, 206 x 172 cm, Uffizi, Florence The Misfortunes of Silenus (Piero di Cosimo)The Misfortunes of Silenus (c.1505-1510) - Oil on panel, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts The Myth of Prometheus (1515) - Oil on panel, Alte Pinakothek, Munich The Building of a Palace (1515-1520) - Oil on panel, 83 x 197 cm, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida