Conférence : Sarah Blake McHam, Caspar Pearson, François Quiviger, « Renaissance Lives – ‘Piero di Cosimo: Eccentricity and Delight’ », en ligne, The Warburg Institute, 12 décembre 2024
12 December 2024, 5:30PM – 7:00PM warburg@sas.ac.uk 020 7862 8910The singular Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) led a deliberately idiosyncratic life: he chose to live in squalor and ate nothing but boiled eggs, which, according to Vasari’s famous biography, he cooked fifty at a time in water used to prepare his painting glue. Sarah Blake McHam delves into the social, cultural and literary backdrops of this artist’s life. She shows how Piero became the...