The Adoration of the Child

Piero di Cosimo created this Adoration of the Child around 1495, bringing his characteristically personal and poetic approach to the standard Nativity subject. Where most Florentine painters treated the Nativity with conventional sweetness, Piero infused his compositions with a distinctive atmospheric quality and emotional depth that set his work apart from his contemporaries. Piero di Cosimo was one of the most original and eccentric painters in late fifteenth-century Florence, developing a mythological imagination quite unlike any of his contemporaries.

Oil on panel with Piero di Cosimo's characteristic atmospheric effects and rich, warm palette. The devotional scene is rendered with the naturalistic detail and poetic mood that distinguish his approach to religious subjects.