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Book SynopsisPiero di Cosimo: Painter of Faith and Fable makes available the proceedings of a conference of the same name, hosted by the Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI), Florence, in September 2015, at the conclusion of the second of two exhibitions dedicated to Piero at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. It is the twelfth publication in the NIKI series and the first such anthology to be published by Brill.
Trade Review“Extremely valuable for the ongoing study of Piero di Cosimo.” Gretchen A. Hirschauer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 229–231.
Table of ContentsContents Foreword: Director’s Remarks List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Telling Tales: The Kaleidoscopic Art of Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) Dennis Geronimus 1 From Ancilla Domini to Madonna del Parto: Observations on Piero di Cosimo’s Marian Imagery Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel 2 L’altare Del Pugliese nella chiesa dello Spedale degli Innocenti: un esempio di dialogo fra pittura e scultura Elena Capretti 3 Real or Imagined? Exotic Animals in Piero di Cosimo’s Mythologies Marina Belozerskaya 4 The ‘Fantasia’ of the Cricket in Piero di Cosimo’s Vulcan and Aeolus Sarah Blake McHam 5 Rara Avis: Piero di Cosimo and the Birds He Painted Roberta J.M. Olson 6 Piero di Cosimo’s Nymph and the Hallmark of Artemis Ianthi Assimakopoulou 7 Beautiful Monsters: The Language of Empathy and Grief in Piero di Cosimo’s Representation of Animals and Human-Animal Hybrids Dennis Geronimus 8 The Question of Centaurs: Lucretius, Ovid, and Empedokles in Piero di Cosimo Guy Hedreen 9 Piero di Cosimo and Netherlandish Painting Paula Nuttall 10 Piero and Ghirlandaio: Drawing the Figure Jean K. Cadogan 11 Deconstructing the Underdrawing in Piero di Cosimo’s Construction of a Palace Elizabeth Walmsley 12 La ricomposizione di un Piero di Cosimo perduto: il restauro della Pala con Lo Sposalizio mistico di S.Caterina e della Lunetta con i due Angeli che sorreggono la corona Anna Teresa Monti e Lisa Venerosi Pesciolini 13 Piero di Cosimo: Two Angels Return to Florence from Edinburgh Lesley Stevenson Index
