Word: piero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarly research, I recently found, for the period between 1925 and 1930, forty-eight articles on mediaeval art, twenty-two on Renaissance and Baroque Art, and one on Modern Art. Perhaps it is because the critical apparatus of most scholars is so beautifully equipped to deal with Masaccio and Piero della Francesca that it finds itself at a loss when confronted by Dali and Gropper. At a symposium on Modern Art some years ago, I heard a scholar who has written much and wisely on the art of the Italian Renaissance attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to cope with some...
Sometime around 1500 a queer Florentine named Piero, of whom it is recorded that he hated the amenities and liked anything wild, was commissioned to paint a decorative panel for the palazzo of one Giovanni Vespucci. A Rousseauist ahead of his time, Piero proceeded to turn out another painting of his favorite subject, primitive life...
...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...
...reception," wrote Pundit Alfred M. Frankfurter for the catalogue, "but none of them comes so close to the dernière heure of modern taste. . . ." Pleased visitors were inclined to agree that the dernière heure would be a happier one if such sparkling craft and wit as Piero's were more commonly wedded to unfettered fantasy...
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...