Dennis Geronimus, Ph.D. (Oxford University, 2001), is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Chair of the Department of Art History at New York University. He is the author of Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), and co-curator (with Gretchen Hirschauer) of the exhibition Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence, held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 2015. He is presently at work on a book devoted to Jacopo da Pontormo, to be published by Yale University Press.Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Ph.D. (Leiden University, 1994), is Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Art Theory at the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University, and Director of the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci as a Physiognomist. Theory and Drawing Practice (Leiden: Primavera Pers, 1994) and guest curator of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: The Language of Faces (Teylers Museum, Haarlem 2018). He has published various articles on Leonardo da Vinci and other Italian Renaissance artists. Currently he is writing a book on Leonardo for Singel Uitgeverijen (2020).

“Extremely valuable for the ongoing study of Piero di Cosimo.” Gretchen A. Hirschauer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 229–231.

• ContentsForeword: Director’s RemarksList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Telling Tales: The Kaleidoscopic Art of Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522)Dennis Geronimus1 From Ancilla Domini to Madonna del Parto: Observations on Piero di Cosimo’s Marian ImageryAlessandra Galizzi Kroegel2 L’altare Del Pugliese nella chiesa dello Spedale degli Innocenti: un esempio di dialogo fra pittura e sculturaElena Capretti3 Real or Imagined? Exotic Animals in Piero di Cosimo’s MythologiesMarina Belozerskaya4 The ‘Fantasia’ of the Cricket in Piero di Cosimo’s Vulcan and AeolusSarah Blake McHam5 Rara Avis: Piero di Cosimo and the Birds He PaintedRoberta J.M. Olson6 Piero di Cosimo’s Nymph and the Hallmark of ArtemisIanthi Assimakopoulou7 Beautiful Monsters: The Language of Empathy and Grief in Piero di Cosimo’s Representation of Animals and Human-Animal HybridsDennis Geronimus8 The Question of Centaurs: Lucretius, Ovid, and Empedokles in Piero di CosimoGuy Hedreen9 Piero di Cosimo and Netherlandish PaintingPaula Nuttall10 Piero and Ghirlandaio: Drawing the FigureJean K. Cadogan11 Deconstructing the Underdrawing in Piero di Cosimo’s Construction of a PalaceElizabeth Walmsley12 La ricomposizione di un Piero di Cosimo perduto: il restauro della Pala con Lo Sposalizio mistico di S.Caterina e della Lunetta con i due Angeli che sorreggono la coronaAnna Teresa Monti e Lisa Venerosi Pesciolini13 Piero di Cosimo: Two Angels Return to Florence from EdinburghLesley StevensonIndex

Dennis Geronimus, Ph.D. (Oxford University, 2001), is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Chair of the Department of Art History at New York University. He is the author of Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), and co-curator (with Gretchen Hirschauer) of the exhibition Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence, held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 2015. He is presently at work on a book devoted to Jacopo da Pontormo, to be published by Yale University Press.Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Ph.D. (Leiden University, 1994), is Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Art Theory at the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University, and Director of the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci as a Physiognomist. Theory and Drawing Practice (Leiden: Primavera Pers, 1994) and guest curator of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: The Language of Faces (Teylers Museum, Haarlem 2018). He has published various articles on Leonardo da Vinci and other Italian Renaissance artists. Currently he is writing a book on Leonardo for Singel Uitgeverijen (2020).

“Extremely valuable for the ongoing study of Piero di Cosimo.” Gretchen A. Hirschauer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 229–231.

• ContentsForeword: Director’s RemarksList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Telling Tales: The Kaleidoscopic Art of Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522)Dennis Geronimus1 From Ancilla Domini to Madonna del Parto: Observations on Piero di Cosimo’s Marian ImageryAlessandra Galizzi Kroegel2 L’altare Del Pugliese nella chiesa dello Spedale degli Innocenti: un esempio di dialogo fra pittura e sculturaElena Capretti3 Real or Imagined? Exotic Animals in Piero di Cosimo’s MythologiesMarina Belozerskaya4 The ‘Fantasia’ of the Cricket in Piero di Cosimo’s Vulcan and AeolusSarah Blake McHam5 Rara Avis: Piero di Cosimo and the Birds He PaintedRoberta J.M. Olson6 Piero di Cosimo’s Nymph and the Hallmark of ArtemisIanthi Assimakopoulou7 Beautiful Monsters: The Language of Empathy and Grief in Piero di Cosimo’s Representation of Animals and Human-Animal HybridsDennis Geronimus8 The Question of Centaurs: Lucretius, Ovid, and Empedokles in Piero di CosimoGuy Hedreen9 Piero di Cosimo and Netherlandish PaintingPaula Nuttall10 Piero and Ghirlandaio: Drawing the FigureJean K. Cadogan11 Deconstructing the Underdrawing in Piero di Cosimo’s Construction of a PalaceElizabeth Walmsley12 La ricomposizione di un Piero di Cosimo perduto: il restauro della Pala con Lo Sposalizio mistico di S.Caterina e della Lunetta con i due Angeli che sorreggono la coronaAnna Teresa Monti e Lisa Venerosi Pesciolini13 Piero di Cosimo: Two Angels Return to Florence from EdinburghLesley StevensonIndex