Piero di Cosimo
Piero di Cosimo , so named after his teacher Cosimo Rosselli , actually: Piero di Lorenzo Ubaldini (born January 2, 1462 in Florence , † April 12, 1521 ibid), was an Italian painter and draftsman of the Renaissance .
Live and act
Piero di Cosimo was the son of the goldsmith Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio and a pupil and assistant of Cosimo Rosselli, with whom he worked in Rome on the frescoes “The Passage through the Red Sea” and “Sermon on the Mount” in the Sistine Chapel . Little reliable information is available about Piero's life. The attributions of his works are often controversial.
Cosimo's work seems to reflect the development of Florentine painting during the transition between the 15th and 16th centuries. Influences from Filippino Lippi , Ghirlandaio , Luca Signorelli and Leonardo in particular and the Milan School in general can be seen. He himself influenced well-known artists of subsequent periods, including Andrea del Sarto , Jacopo da Pontormo , Franciabigio and other outstanding masters.
Giorgio Vasari , the art writer of the Renaissance, described him as a difficult and eccentric person, a loner. His mythological pictures are also unconventional with their often unusual and unusual themes. His most interesting creations are some mythological compositions (the story of Perseus in the Uffizi in Florence, Venus, Cupid and Mars in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie). In addition to these paintings, he painted others with religious motifs, a number of altarpieces and portraits . In his painting style he differs from his Florentine contemporaries through his warm colors, a Leonardo-trained treatment of light and shadow and a close study of nature, combined with a preference for landscape painting.
Works (selection)
None of Piero di Cosimo's pictures are dated or signed by hand.
- Portraits of Francesco Giamberti and Giuliano di Sangallo , 1482, diptych , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ,
- Venus, Mars and Amor , ~ 1505, Staatliche Gemäldesammlungen , Berlin
- Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci , Condé Museum , Chantilly
- St. Family with Johannesknabe , Old Masters Picture Gallery , Dresden; Tondo
- Perseus frees Andromeda , ~ 1515, Uffizi Gallery , Florence; Spalliera or cassone picture
- From the Prometheus saga , ~ 1487–89, 2 plates, Alte Pinakothek , Munich and Musée des Beaux-Arts , Strasbourg
- Death of Prokris , ~ 1488–1510, National Gallery , London
- Battle between Lapiths and Centaurs , ~ 1500–1515, National Gallery, London; Spalliera or cassone picture
- Scenes from Prehistory , Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
- Mary with the child and a dove , the so-called Dove Madonna , Louvre , Paris
- Mary with the Child and the Johannesknaben , Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
literature
- Mina Bacci: Piero di Cosimo . Bramante, Milan 1966, ( Antichi pittori italiani ).
- Anna Forlani Tempesti, Elena Capretti: Piero di Cosimo. Catalogo completo . Octavo, Firenze 1996, ISBN 88-8030-017-2 , ( Biblioteca d 'arte Prima serie 5).
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Johnson: The Renaissance , Berlin 2002
Web links
- Works by Piero di Cosimo at Zeno.org .
- Vasari's Life of Piero di Cosimo. The Documented Life of Piero di Cosimo
- The day the nymph died, Florence celebrates the work of the painter Piero di Cosimo by Andreas Kilb in FAZ from August 29, 2015
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cosimo, Piero di |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cosimo, Pietro di; Lorenzo, Piero di |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1462 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
DATE OF DEATH | around 1521 |
Place of death | Florence |