Detail from: The Visitation PIERO DI COSIMO c. 1490

The full title is  The Visitation with Saints Nicholas and Anthony Abbot.


Piero di Cosimo was Florentine and trained in the studio of Cosimo Rosselli, working as his assistant in painting the frescos in the Sistine Chapel [started in 1481].  He was an imaginative artist tasking his scenes excellently from life.  Religious paintings were a part of his work, the most important being his Immaculate Conception (Florence, Uffizi). An extremely original artist, his influences include Signorelli and later on Leonardo and his most celebrated pupil was Andrea del Sarto.

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