Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Florentine painter. His works include Vulcan and Aeolus (c. 1486).
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Examples
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He settled in Florence, where the chief branch of his family continued to flourish, and had for his second master Piero di Cosimo, that jocund and facile painter and vivid and harmonious colourist, under whose brush the pagan deities came to life again.
The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900
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We have seen Piero di Cosimo in his youth, the serious, absent young man, who never joked with his juniors in Cosimo Roselli's shop; we see him now, with his youthful oddities hardened into eccentricities, and his reserve deepened to misanthropy.
Fra Bartolommeo Scott, Leader, 1837-1902 1881
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We have seen Piero di Cosimo in his youth, the serious, absent young man, who never joked with his juniors in Cosimo Roselli's shop; we see him now, with his youthful oddities hardened into eccentricities, and his reserve deepened to misanthropy.
Fra Bartolommeo Leader Scott 1869
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Botticelli or Piero di Cosimo, entered his chamber, he seems to have thought there was something not wholly earthly about him; at least, he ever afterwards believed that it was not without the co-operation of the stars that the stranger had arrived on that day.
The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866
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It was in Nello's shop that Piero di Cosimo was speaking, on the twenty-fourth of November, just a week after the entrance of the French.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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"The banners are the better sight," said Piero di Cosimo, forgetting the noise in his delight at the winding stream of colour as the tributary standards advanced round the piazza.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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It was Piero di Cosimo, who took no heed of the preaching, having come solely to look at the escaped prisoner.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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Nanette Lepore said her colors were inspired by the portraits of Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo, and that she has selected shiny iridescent fabrics and velvet.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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Nanette Lepore said her colors were inspired by the portraits of Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo, and that she has selected shiny iridescent fabrics and velvet.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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Nanette Lepore said her colors were inspired by the portraits of Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo and that she has selected shiny iridescent fabrics and velvet.
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