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Piero di Cosimo [Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d’Antonio]
(b ?Florence, 1461–2; d Florence ?1521). Italian painter and draughtsman. Tax declarations made by Piero di Cosimo’s father suggest that the artist was born in either 1461 or 1462. According to the first, he was eight years old in 1469, while a catasto (land registry declaration) of 1480 gives his age as 18. A document of 1457 establishes that his father, Lorenzo di Piero d’Antonio, was a maker of small tools (succhiellinaio) rather than a goldsmith, as Vasari claimed. By 1480 Piero appears no longer to have been living at the family house in the Via della Scala, Florence, but was an unsalaried apprentice or workshop assistant to Cosimo Rosselli, from whom he received room and board and eventually took the name of Piero di Cosimo.
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- Piero di Cosimo
- attributions
- patrons and collectors
- Barracco, Giovanni
- Benson, R. H.
- Graham, William
- Italy, §III, 3(ii)(a): Early Renaissance painting, c 1400–c 1500: Florence
- Orléans, House of: (10) Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis d’Orléans, Duc d’Aumale
- Rovere, della (i): (1) Pope Sixtus IV
- Sangallo, da: (1) Giuliano da Sangallo, §1(iii): Late work, from 1492
- Scotland, §XIII: Collecting and dealing
- Vespucci
- pupils
- teachers
- works
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