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Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522)

• Was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
• Also known as Piero di Lorenzo. • Piero was born in Florence.
• He trained under Cosimo Rosselli, whose daughter he married, and assisted him in his Sistine Chapel frescos.
• He is most famous for the mythological and allegorical subjects.
• He was frightened of thunderstorms, and so pyrophobic that he rarely cooked his food; he lived on a diet of hard-boiled eggs, which he prepared 50 at a time while boiling glue for his artworks.
• He also resisted any cleaning of his studio, or trimming of the fruit trees of his orchard.
• He lived, wrote Vasari, "more like a beast than a man".
• His fellow pupils were Albertinelli and Bartolomeo della Porta.
• He was the master of Andrea del Sarto.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Piero di Cosimo, Allegory, c. 1500.
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