{"product_id":"piero-di-cosimo-by-sarah-blake-mcham-9781789148428","title":"Piero di Cosimo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDelving into the artist's deliberately idiosyncratic life, \u003cem\u003ePiero di Cosimo\u003c\/em\u003e shows how Piero chose to live in squalor and eat nothing but boiled eggs, which (according to Vasari's famous \u003cem\u003eLives of the Artists\u003c\/em\u003e) he cooked fifty at a time in his painting glue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book illustrates how the artist became the favourite of sophisticated patrons, who were eager to decorate their residences with pagan Greco-Roman mythological subjects. Piero's vividly imagined portrayals led to his cornering the market on these commissions. At the same time, his more orthodox, but never ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings also won the admiration of leading Florentine families.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461252497644,"sku":"9781789148428","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781789148428-piero-di-cosimo.jpg?v=1774963689","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/piero-di-cosimo-by-sarah-blake-mcham-9781789148428","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}