Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici (1416–1469) organized his by color, in an age when readers had to bind their own books: “blue for theology, yellow for grammar, violet for poetry, red for history ...

Another major fan was Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, who was the head of the Medici banking family and, following the assassination of his brother Giuliano, de facto ruler of the Florentine ...

He included such pieces as Piero di Cosimo’s Perseus Freeing Andromeda (around 1510-15), which depicts a Black female musician, as well as portraits of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici, who ruled ...

A black musician seen in Piero di Cosimo's Perseus Frees Andromeda, 1510-1515 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Many of the images widely associated with the Italian Renaissance—think Leonardo ...

She can currently be seen on our screens playing somebody sympathetic in Netflix’s latest series of Medici, as Lucrezia Tornabuoni, wife of Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici, and mother of Lorenzo ...

(See also: Brunnelleschi's Dome.) In 1464, during Botticelli’s apprenticeship, Cosimo died and was succeeded by his son, Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici.

That untaintedness also gains him some powerful enemies, including Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici, and Pope Alexander VI (one of the murderous Borgias), who view him as a threat to their power.

A 1438 letter to Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici, begging to paint him an altarpiece, survives. His masterpiece is the high altarpiece, showing The Madonna and Child with Saints, for the Florentine church ...

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.

Peter Schjeldahl on the first major retrospective of di Cosimo, the strangest master of the Florentine Renaissance, at the National Gallery of Art.

It took 500 years, but Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo is finally getting a retrospective.

His father, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, had recently died and left him the Medici bank along with the reins of the Florentine government.