reporting from WASHINGTON — When American millionaires bought paintings by Piero di Cosimo in the late 19th century, almost all the works were attributed to other Italian Renaissance artists. Piero, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild visions: detail of Andromeda Freed by Perseus (with Perseus Slaying the Dragon) by Piero di Cosimo - VCG Wilson/Corbis via ...

It took almost 500 years for one of the bad boys of Renaissance art to get a major retrospective. But if recent crowds at the National Gallery of Art are any indication, Piero di Cosimo may be ...

Launched on October 31, 1517, the Protestant Reformation broke not just with the Catholic Church but with all that’s dark and demonic, wanton and witchy. A new book provides an ideal introduction to a ...

Are we ready for a five-hundred-and-fifty-three-year-old overnight sensation? The first major retrospective of Piero di Cosimo, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., affords a very ...

Piero di Cosimo, "Vulcan and Aeolus" (c. 1490), tempera and oil on canvas, 61 1/5 x 65 1/2 inches (155.5 × 166.5 cm) (image via Wikimedia Commons Among the odder artistic compositions of the ...

Italian Old Master Piero di Cosimo is fondly remembered as one of the more outlandish artists of the Renaissance, if not the entire history of art. Immortalized by Renaissance biographer Vasari as an ...

THE DAILY PIC: Yesterday, in this same space, I compared Cézanne’s Card Players at the Barnes Foundation to Renaissance altarpieces–not knowing that the following day I’d be among precisely such ...

A New York Times article by Carol Vogel announcing the first ever retrospective for Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo appears to have lifted a passage straight from the artist’s Wikipedia entry, ...

Say “Piero di Cosimo” (1462-1522) and we envision agile, muscular figures, both human and fantastic, enacting arcane mythological scenes, usually involving animals. There’s that wonderful painting in ...

It took almost 500 years for one of the bad boys of Renaissance art to get a major retrospective. But if recent crowds at the National Gallery of Art are any indication, Piero di Cosimo may be ...