Parution : Dennis Geronimus et Michael W. Kwakkelstein (dir.), Piero di Cosimo, Painter of Faith and Fable, Leyde, Brill, 2019
The study of Piero di Cosimo belongs no less to the history of the imagination than to the history of art. As was true for Giorgio Vasari five centuries ago, Piero’s intensely personal visual language remains a moving target for modern scholars. Yet, as surprising and strange as his pictorial solutions appear, we have never known as much about Piero as we do today. Freed from the powerful spell of Vasari’s biography-cum-cautionary tale, the Piero...