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"This book is an original, cogent account of the singular
Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522), providing a concise
survey of his life within his social, cultural and literary
backdrop. Delving into the artist’s deliberately idiosyncratic
life, the book shows how Piero chose to live in squalor, and eat
nothing but boiled eggs, which (according to Vasari’s famous
Lives of the Artists) he cooked fifty at a time in his painting
glue. This book shows how the artist became the favourite of
sophisticated patrons, who were eager to decorate their residences
with pagan Greco-Roman mythological subjects. Piero’s vividly
imagined portrayals led to his cornering the market on these
commissions. At the same time his more orthodox, but never
ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings
also won the admiration of leading Florentine families."
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