Sarah Blake McHam

This book is an original, cogent account of the singular Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522), providing a concise survey of his life within his social, cultural, and literary backdrop. Delving into the artist's deliberately idiosyncratic life, Piero di Cosimo shows how Piero chose to live in squalor and eat nothing but boiled eggs, which (according to Vasari's famous Lives...