“There are all sorts of documents that detail where he lived,” says New York University’s Dennis Geronimus, a Piero scholar who curated the exhibition with NGA’s Gretchen A. Despite Piero’s many surviving paintings, we know little about his personality, compared to his better-known contemporaries (like Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and Michelangelo ). Piero was a 15th-century Florentine painter remembered, as in his brief biographical chapter in Giorgio Vasari ’s The Lives of the Artists, as a madman who allegedly ate eggs like a voracious Cool Hand Luke. But Piero lacks the household-name fame of his peers, and pulling off an exhibition of this nature is harder than it seems. Considering that it’s been nearly 500 years since Piero died and 20 of his works reside in collections across North America, it might seem unlikely that this exhibition is his first-ever solo retrospective. Ī name that would likely make none of those lists is Piero di Cosimo, currently the subject of a monographic retrospective at the National Gallery of Art. Artists may add Titian, Jan van Eyck, Giotto, or Giovanni Bellini. Some might include Sandro Botticelli, D ürer, or Bosch.
Friends without artistic backgrounds would probably list the names of Ninja Turtles. Here’s a fun game: Ask your friends to name their favorite Renaissance painters. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.
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