Piero di Cosimo: Painter of Faith and Fable

Author:   Dennis Geronimus ,  Michael Kwakkelstein
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   12
ISBN:  

9789004363052


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Piero 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.

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Author:   Dennis Geronimus ,  Michael Kwakkelstein
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   12
Weight:   0.778kg
ISBN:  

9789004363052


ISBN 10:   900436305
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents 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

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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.


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Dennis Geronimus, Ph.D. (Oxford University, 2001), is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Chair of the Department of Art History at New York University. He is the author of Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), and co-curator (with Gretchen Hirschauer) of the exhibition Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence, held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 2015. He is presently at work on a book devoted to Jacopo da Pontormo, to be published by Yale University Press. Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Ph.D. (Leiden University, 1994), is Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Art Theory at the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University, and Director of the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci as a Physiognomist. Theory and Drawing Practice (Leiden: Primavera Pers, 1994) and guest curator of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: The Language of Faces (Teylers Museum, Haarlem 2018). He has published various articles on Leonardo da Vinci and other Italian Renaissance artists. Currently he is writing a book on Leonardo for Singel Uitgeverijen (2020).

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