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Piero di Cosimo

See also:  -[Procris]- (Mythology sub-directory) 


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What drew me to this painter was this one image in a book
(see below) that was so beautifully surreal. Admist all
of the pieta's, adorations, was the "di Cosimo" chap.
Now who was that? A mis-print?



Mythologogical Scene

 
(presumed subject:  "The Death of Procris")

 
Anyway, i've tucked the notes about her under
the mythology directory..
  -[Procris]- (Mythology sub-directory) 
   Procris - Wife of Cephalus

As Michael Jacobs says about Piero (di Cosimo)

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The most bizarre Florentine painter of mythloggies
of the late 15th century [sic, 1500c] was Piero 
di Cosimo. Vasari gives an entertaiing description
of Piero as a savage recluse who despised all 
civilised values, hated the sound of churh bells
and the chanting of monks, survived on an exclusive
diet of hard-boioled eggs prepared in great numbers
in advance, and whose life-style was in short "more
besital than human". 

The mythological world which interested Piero was 
correspondingly a primitive one, such workd as the 
"Mythologicial Scene" which can not be satisfactorily
related to a specific classical text, is merely a
haunting evocation of life in an almost primitive
wilderness. As with his other paintings, Piero 
displays his love for animals, and appropriately a
dog is shown to be almost as fascinated by the dead
woman as is the kneeling fawn bent over her. Piero's
crude and brutal outlook on life was shared by at 
least one of his patrons, Francesco Pugliese, who
onwed a very large number of the artist's mythologies
and was later banned from Florence for calling Lorenzo
de Medicci 'il magnifico merdo" ("The Magnificent Shit").

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-- so, these are bad things??? Sounds like my sort
of absurdist. But, alas; i, digress.

References

 
Jacobs, Michael (1980). A Guide to European Painting.
                Royal Smeets Offset Weert, Netherlands,
                ISBN 0.89009.381.4 - Pp. 33-34,
More about Francesco Pugliese
(that scaliwag!)

A wool merchant...

  -[www.MetMuseum.org]-

      -[more materials here]-

       http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_online_resourc.asp

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