Piero di Cosimo de' Medici

styles in coming up with other forms of art, up until around 1455. He moved to other parts of Italy and retired from his work, settling down in Florence, as the Medici family was still paying him for his work. He later died in Florence in 1466 of unknown causes and was buried in San Lorenzo, close to where his longtime friend – Cosimo de Medici. Some of the images created by Donatella during his best years in art include David – both marble and bronze, Mary Magdalene, Judith and Holofernes,…

Both John Pope-Hennessy's The Portrait in the Renaissance and Patricia Simons's Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture discuss the ways in which portraiture during the Quattrocento was used to inform the public. Portraiture during this time was used to inform and educate the public, establishing both political and social standing. Simons responds to Pope-Hennessy's article with a strong argument: portraits of women had different connotations than those of men.…