The Hunt in the Forest
Paolo Uccello · 1470
Paolo Uccello
1397–1475
Paolo Uccello, born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian Renaissance painter and mathematician from Florence 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 Vasari wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point. Uccello used perspective to create a feeling of depth in his paintings. His best known works are the three paintings representing the battle of San Romano, which were wrongly entitled the Battle of Sant'Egidio of 1416 for a long period of time. Paolo worked in the Late Gothic tradition, emphasizing colour and pageantry rather than the classical realism that other artists were pioneering.
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The Hunt in the Forest
Paolo Uccello · 1470
Ashmolean Museum
The Annunciation
Paolo Uccello · 1420
Ashmolean Museum
Madonna and Child
Paolo Uccello · 1445
National Gallery of Ireland
The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Baptist, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Francis
Paolo Uccello · 1460
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Works worth knowing
3 of Paolo Uccello's works, and what makes each one worth a look.
The Hunt in the Forest
Paolo Uccello · 1470
Ashmolean Museum
The Hunt in the Forest (also known as The Hunt by Night or simply The Hunt) is a painting by the Italian artist Paolo Uccello, made around 1470. It is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. The painting is an example of linear perspective in Renaissance art, a mathematical system developed to create the appearance of depth on a flat surface.
The Annunciation
Paolo Uccello · 1420
Ashmolean Museum
Annunciation is a gold and tempera on panel painting by Paolo Uccello executed c. It is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, to which it was given by William Thomas Herner Fox-Strangways in 1850. An 18th-century label on the reverse links the painting to Pesello and gives it the catalogue number 22.
The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Baptist, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Francis
Paolo Uccello · 1460
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Crucifixion is a c.1457 to 1458 tempera on panel painting by Paolo Uccello, now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, in Madrid. Its dating is debated, some date it to the same period in the Cappella dell'Assunta (1435) due to the similarities between the pose of the Virgin Mary in Crucifixion and the woman climbing the stairs in the chapel fresco of The Birth of the Virgin, whilst others date it to a later period after his return to Padua, where he was influenced by the work of Donatello.
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