Piero Di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange Book

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462â??1522) is known todayâ??as he was in his own timeâ??for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. In this book, Dennis Geronimus overcomes the scarcity of information about the artistâ??s life and worksâ??only one of the nearly sixty known works by Piero is actually signed and datedâ??and pieces together from extensive archival research the most complete and accurate account of Pieroâ??s life and career ever written.Unfettered imagination was the sign under which Piero exercised his pictorial invention, and yet the complicated artist was also a product of his culture. The book fills gaps in the artistâ??s biography and provides intensive analysis of Pieroâ??s protean imagery, discusses his various patrons and commissions, and lists his extant, lost, and uncertainly attributed works.Read More