Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence - Hardcover

Dennis Geronimus is Associate Professor of Renaissance Art History at New York University and guest curator of the exhibition. Virginia Brilliant is Curator of European art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. David Franklin is Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Gretchen Hirschauer is Associate Curator of Italian paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and co-curator of the exhibition. Alison Luchs is Curator of early European sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Serena Padovani is Director Emerita of the Galleria Palatina in Florence. Elizabeth Walmsley is a conservator of paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

'This catalogue of an important exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington presents a cross section of the artist's entire career, giving equal weight to religious and secular production. ... Essays on selected topics supplement the full catalogue entries, all of it enriched with large color plates and revealing, detailed close-ups. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Choice 'This book, written on the occasion of a landmark exhibition, brings alive the work of one of the great non-conformists of the Renaissance. Piero di Cosimo's curiosity about nature was surpassed only by the multi-faceted genius of Leonardo da Vinci, who was ten years Piero's senior and had a profound influence on his art. His wonderment of the ordinary in life and his sensitivity to the foibles of humanity as well as of animals enabled him to re-imagine the great religious and mythologic themes patrons demanded. Anyone who pages through this beautifully produced book will come away with a new vision of Renaissance painting.' Keith Christiansen, Metropolitan Museum of Art ' ... Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence is a book that stands as an equal to the magnificent show it accompanies, and is also to be welcomed as a major contribution to scholarship, belonging on the shelf of every scholar of 15th century Florentine art.' Karen Hope Goodchild, Wofford College 'A beautifully illustrated introduction to the life and work of a master of Rennaissance Florence' The Tablet, May 2015