Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Perseus frees Andromeda

  • Piero di Cosimo

    Piero di Cosimo was a highly eccentric Florentine painter (ca. 1461-1521) whose best known paintings are quite idiosyncratic. His mythological paintings exhibit a bizarre style, many filled with fantastic humans and animals. Perseus frees Andromeda, ca. 1513 Oil on wood Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy   . . . it appeared that he had lived the…