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Category:	Renaissance Art
Name:	Piero di Cosimo
Birth Year:	1462
Death Year:	1521
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Piero di Cosimo! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Find your favorite art: barewalls.com Florentine renaissance painter. Vasari portrays Piero as a highly eccentric character who lived on hard-boiled eggs, "which he cooked while he was boiling his glue, to save the firing". The paintings for which he is best known are appropriately idiosyncratic. He was also a painter of animals. His religious works are somewhat more conventional, although still distinctive. One of his outstanding religious works is the Immaculate Conception in the Uffizi, Florence. Piero also painted portraits, the finest of which is that of Simonetta Vespucci (see representative image), in which she is depicted as Cleopatra with the asp around her neck.[Adapted from WebMuseum] The Great Books: Piero di Cosimo Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Piero di Cosimo. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Piero di Cosimo. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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