Eccentricity and delight
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31090228
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131838
abstract: "This book is a concise survey of the life of the Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) within his social and cultural surroundings. Delving into the artist's deliberately idiosyncratic life, the book shows how di Cosimo chose to live in squalor - eating nothing but boiled eggs cooked fifty at a time in his painting glue. Sarah Blake McHam shows how the artist became a favorite among sophisticated patrons eager for pagan artworks featuring Greco-Roman mythological subjects as well as orthodox, but never ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings. The result is a newly accessible introduction to the life of this important Renaissance artist"--Amazon.com
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31071828
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31071828
language: eng
name: Piero di Cosimo
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301331724
type: CreativeWork

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