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...Florence, Piero di Cosimo (he took the last name in honor of his teacher, Cosimo Roselli) was well regarded but not as illustrious as his contemporaries, Botticelli and Leonardo. In later, more grandiose times, he was not even well regarded. In the 20th Century, however, the wheel of fashion has coasted around to Piero. During the last twelve months three U. S. museums have acquired works of his and last week Manhattan's Schaeffer Galleries exhibited seven altogether, including The Discovery of Honey from the Worcester Museum. There was great talk of Piero's affinities with such meticulous...
Twice before this summer had the Toledo Museum pounced on the sort of thing it wants. From a private English collection which had last shown it at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Old Masters in 1904, the Museum acquired Adoration oj the Child, painted about 1495 by Piero di Cosimo for Lorenzo de' Medici. Notable for its luxuriant and microscopic detail and for the figure of the Child asleep. Piero's own idea, that masterpiece was one of the few the Museum could lay its hands on that it considered worthy of hanging with such possessions as Filippo...
...Siena declined in art and war, Florence grew great. Transition painter in Cleveland's show is Lorenzo Monaco, Siena-born, Florence-bred. He was followed by a virile stampede of topnotch Florentine painters : Filippo Lippi, Piero di Cosimo, Andrea del Castagno, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto, all at Cleveland and all masters of form who had graduated from the childish mysticism of the Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking...
Copperplate engravings as well as woodcuts were used as illustrations in printed books. Several such books are shown. Pascal, "Henrici II ... Elogium" contains an engraved portrait by Delanne, and Aldus, "Vita di Cosimo de'Medici", Bologna, 1586, is illustrated with engravings by Carracci...
Among the greatest single pieces are Ghirlandajo's portrait of Francesco Sassetti (banking partner of de Medici) and his son, seen in his bank at Lyons, against a background of harbor and water front; a Titian representing the Madonna and Infant Christ; Piero di Cosimo's picture of Hylas, Hercules' favorite, discovered in a meadow by water nymphs...