Holy Family

Piero di Cosimo painted this Holy Family around 1495 in Florence. His religious works, though less celebrated than his mythological paintings, show his distinctive approach to color, light, and atmosphere. The Holy Family was a popular devotional subject that Piero treated with his characteristic combination of naturalistic observation and poetic sensibility. 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 rich, warm coloring and Piero di Cosimo's distinctive atmospheric treatment. The intimate family scene is rendered with the naturalistic detail and subtle emotional nuance that characterize his best work.