# Piero Di Cosimo: Eccentricity and Delight - Hardcover

by **Sarah Blake McHam** (Author)

**An original survey of the Renaissance painter's life and work.**

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.

### Author Biography

**Sarah Blake McHam** is professor of art history at Rutgers University and author of _Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the Natural History_.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 0.79 x 8.58 x 5.51 IN

**Publication Date:** April 26, 2024

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- **Price:** 29.11 USD
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