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Piero di Cosimo (also known as Piero di Lorenzo) (1462-1521) was an Italian painter. The son of a Florentine goldsmith, he apprenticed under Cosimo Rosselli. He was noted for his rather eccentric personality and unorthodox interpretations of mythological subjects. Piero's students included Andrea del Sarto.
His works include:
- Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (c. 1480)
- The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot (c.1490) painted as an altarpiece for the Capponi chapel in the church of Santo Spirito, Florence
- A Satyr mourning over a Nymph (c.1495)
- The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus (c.1499)
- Allegory (c. 1500) (oil on panel)
- The Nativity with the Infant Saint John (c. 1500) (oil on canvas)
- Fight between the Lapiths and the Centaurs (c.1500-15)
- La Maddalena (1501)
- The Return from the Hunt (c.1505–7)
- Perseus Frees Andromeda (c.1513) (oil on wood)
- The Building of a Palace (c.1515/20) (Oil on panel)
- Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel of Moses and the Tables of Law and Sermon on the Mount and Healing of the Leper.
