Piero di Cosimo

Piero di Cosimo

Piero di Cosimo (also�known�as Piero di Lorenzo) (1462-1521) was an Italian painter. The son of a Florentine goldsmith, he apprenticed under Cosimo Rosselli. He was noted for his rather eccentric personality and unorthodox interpretations of mythological subjects. Piero's students included Andrea del Sarto.

His works include:

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (c. 1480)
The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot (c.1490) painted as an altarpiece for the Capponi chapel in the church of Santo Spirito, Florence
A Satyr mourning over a Nymph (c.1495)
The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus (c.1499)
Allegory (c. 1500) (oil on panel)
The Nativity with the Infant Saint John (c. 1500) (oil on canvas)
Fight between the Lapiths and the Centaurs (c.1500-15)
La Maddalena (1501)
The Return from the Hunt (c.1505�7)
Perseus Frees Andromeda (c.1513) (oil on wood)
The Building of a Palace (c.1515/20) (Oil on panel)
Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel of Moses and the Tables of Law and Sermon on the Mount and Healing of the Leper.

Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Piero di Cosimo in his Lives of the Artists.