Piero di Cosimo

Piero di Cosimo

Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 – 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He is most famous for the mythological and allegorical subjects he painted in the late Quattrocento; he is said to have abandoned these to return to religious subjects under the influence of Savonarola, the preacher who exercised a huge sway in Florence in the 1490s, and had a similar effect on Botticelli. The High Renaissance style of the new century had little influence on him, and he retained the straightforward realism of his figures, which combines with an often whimsical treatment of his subjects to create the distinctive mood of his works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piero di Cosimo has received more than 256,615 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Piero di Cosimo is the 208th most popular painter (up from 241st in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from Italy (up from 801st in 2019) and the 56th most popular Italian Painter.

Piero di Cosimo is most famous for his paintings of the natural world, in particular the landscapes of his native Tuscany.