Piero di Cosimo Works Online
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Original works by Piero di Cosimo available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, ca.1520
St. John the Evangelist, ca.1500
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Madonna with Child and the Young St John, ca.1505/10 (Zoom)
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Piero di Cosimo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Piero di Cosimo at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Piero di Cosimo
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Piero di Cosimo at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Portrait of Francesco Giamberti, Cabinetmaker, ca.1482
Portrait of Giuliano da San Gallo, Architect and Sculptor, ca.1482
Piero di Cosimo at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
2 works by Piero di Cosimo online
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Magdalene Reading (copy)
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
A Young Man
Galleria Borghese, Rome
La Maddalena
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Philbrook Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
The Building of a Palace, ca.1515/20
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, John the Baptist, Dominic, and Nicholas of Bari, ca.1485-90
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "European 1000-1900" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
Virtual Uffizi
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus, ca.1499
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
The Forest Fire, 1490
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Piero di Cosimo in the Art Renewal Center
18 works online
Piero di Cosimo in the Artchive
Piero di Cosimo at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
Andromeda freed by Perseus (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Piero di Cosimo in the Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Piero di Cosimo 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
Piero di Cosimo: Fiction, Invention and fantasia
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