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Piero di Cosimo

1462 - 1522

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Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 – 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, who continued to use an essentially Early Renaissance style into the 16th century. 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. Vasari has many stories of his eccentricity, and the mythological subjects have an individual and quirky fascination. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Piero di Cosimo is the 223rd most popular painter (up from 246th in 2019), the 791st most popular biography from Italy (up from 813th in 2019) and the 60th 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.

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Among painters, Piero di Cosimo ranks 223 out of 2,023. Before him are Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jan Gossaert, Nicholas Roerich, Andrea del Castagno, Antonio del Pollaiolo, and Francesco Hayez. After him are Raoul Dufy, Petrus Christus, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Jacopo Bellini, Ferdinand Hodler, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1462, Piero di Cosimo ranks 2. Before him is Louis XII of France. After him are Pietro Pomponazzi, Joanna la Beltraneja, Johannes Trithemius, Mihnea cel Rău, John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln, Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Pietro Lando, and Edzard I, Count of East Frisia. Among people deceased in 1522, Piero di Cosimo ranks 2. Before him is Johann Reuchlin. After him are Anne of France, Piero Soderini, Margarita Luti, Antonio de Nebrija, Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Alain I of Albret, Ramón de Cardona, Johannes Werner, and Hans von Kulmbach.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Piero di Cosimo ranks 791 out of 5,161. Before him are Giancarlo Giannini (1942), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429), Andrea Pisano (1290), Francesco Hayez (1791), and Tancred, King of Sicily (1138). After him are Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (1937), Poliziano (1454), Lentulus Batiatus (-200), Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751), Charles Ponzi (1882), and Jacopo Bellini (1396).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Piero di Cosimo ranks 60. Before him are Rosso Fiorentino (1494), Francesco Guardi (1712), Luca Giordano (1634), Andrea del Castagno (1420), Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429), and Francesco Hayez (1791). After him are Jacopo Bellini (1396), Domenichino (1581), Pisanello (1395), Jacopo Bassano (1510), Bartolommeo Bandinelli (1488), and Andrea Pozzo (1642).

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