The NY Times today reviews an exhibit of paintings by Piero di Cosimo, an Italian Renaissance painter who late in life developed Parkinson’s disease (although it wouldn’t be called “Parkinson’s disease” for a few hundred years).
His paintings are amazing, mixing humans with fantasy and mythological figures. He was a bit of a fantasy figure himself, often living exclusively on hard boiled eggs, which he prepared fifty at a time.
As a youth he helped paint the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. And even though he came down with PD, he died of the plague in 1522.
Such an amazing artist!
Note: To examine these pictures in full size, click on the image, then click again on the words “full resolution.”
Vivid imagination + technically brilliant.