Piero di Cosimo

For a 1968 ad for Olivetti, he modified a 15th-century painting by Piero di Cosimo showing a mourning dog and inserted the Italian company’s latest portable typewriter at the feet of the dead nymph in the original artwork.

Did Piero di Cosimo really live almost entirely on hard-boiled eggs?

The show in the Palazzo dei Diamanti, one of the city’s finest Renaissance palazzi, offers an array of suggestive works by leading artists of the time, including Botticelli, Cosmè Tura, Leonardo da Vinci, Mantegna, Piero di Cosimo, Raphael and Titian.

Born Andrea d’Agnolo, he was the son of a tailor – “sarto,” in Italian — and as a teenager he was a favored student of the Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo.

The Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo was one of the major artists of his age, and a powerful influence on many of his contemporaries.