Vaasmotief geschraagd door twee najade-achtige figuren

About this artwork

height 154 mm x width 202 mm

About the Artist

Andrea di Cosimo · 1477–1548

According to Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century biographer of artists, Andrea studied with Cosimo Rosselli and Lorenzo Luzzo, whose names he appended to his own. He learned of the archaeological classicism dominant in Rome from Luzzo. He mastered the vocabulary of Classical motifs, especially the grotesques inspired by examples in the ruins of the Domus Aurea. Vasari credited him with first using grot...