Piero di cosimo biography samples

Italian painter Date of Birth: Country: Italy

Content:

1. Piero di Cosimo: Renaissance Artist
2. Early Career and Mythological Paintings
3. Influence of Leonardo da Vinci
4. Mythological Paintings and Eccentricity
5. Late Career and Legacy
6. Poetic Sensibility and Stylistic Innovations
7. Influence and Legacy

Piero di Cosimo: Renaissance Artist

Early Life and Apprenticeship

Piero di Cosimo () was an Italian painter born in Florence during the transition from Early to High Renaissance.

As an apprentice to Cosimo Rosselli, who called him "di Cosimo" because, as Vasari wrote, "we owe not less to him who teaches us our craft and provides for our well-being than to him who begot us and merely gave us life."

Early Career and Mythological Paintings

In , Piero accompanied his master to Rome for commissions in the Sistine Chapel alongside Botticelli, Perugino, and Ghirlandaio.

By , he began working independently and received a commission to adorn the walls of a roo