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Uccello most famous paintings - including the Renaissance masterpiece The Battle of San Romano (c. 1456) - are exemplars of the artist's studious, almost devotional, studies in perspective. For some, however, his fixation on exploring the mathematical properties of picture composition came at the high cost.
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Paolo Uccello has 14 books on Goodreads with 31 ratings. Paolo Uccello’s most popular book is The Hunt in the Forest by Paolo Uccello.
Sep 22, 2020 · Paolo Uccello (1397-1475 CE), real name Paolo di Dono, was an Italian painter who is considered one of the founding fathers of Florentine Renaissance art. Uccello was one of the earliest artists to attempt certain tricks of perspective in his paintings. His most famous works include the paintings Saint George and the Dragon and The Hunt, as ...
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Paolo Uccello. Paolo Uccello ( / uːˈtʃɛloʊ / oo-CHEL-oh, Italian: [ˈpaːolo utˈtʃɛllo]; 1397 – 10 December 1475), born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian painter and mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. In his book Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio ...
The Complete Work of Paolo Uccello. Hardcover – January 1, 1950. The illustrations in this book reproduce the whole of the master's work (frescoes, paintings, and drawings) in a rich series of detail photographs. These detail photographs, which are essential to an understanding of Uccello's complex schemes, have in many cases never previously ...
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Apr 12, 2024 · Paolo Uccello (born 1397, Pratovecchio, near Florence—died December 10, 1475, Florence) was a Florentine painter whose work attempted uniquely to reconcile two distinct artistic styles—the essentially decorative late Gothic and the new heroic style of the early Renaissance. Probably his most famous paintings are three panels representing ...
This volume contains a catalogue of all of Paolo Uccello's recognized paintings, including lost and attributed works. The introductory essay by Enzo Carli appraises the artist's achievement in the light of modern criticism and scholarship, and presents the major periods in his development.
