Piero Di Cosimo
1462 – 1521
Florentine painter, a pupil of Cosimo Rosselli, whose Christian name he adopted as a patronym. There are no signed, documented, or dated works by him, and reconstruction of his oeuvre depends on the account given in Vasari 's Lives. It is one of Vasari's most entertaining biographies, for he 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".
42 artworks in collection
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14801520
Museum
Madonna and Sleeping Christ Child with the Infant St John the Baptist
Private collection