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1 The Battle of San Romano - Paolo Uccello (1438-1440)
The Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the Battle of San Romano between Florentine and Sienese forces in They are significant as revealing the development of linear perspective in early Italian Renaissance painting, and are unusual as a major secular commission. The paintings are in egg tempera on wooden panels, each over 3 metres long.

2 Biography  Paolo Uccello is one of the most significant artists of his period, being mostly famous for the three paintings representing the Battle of San Romano and the painting Saint George and the Dragon. Uccello worked greatly with color and was influenced by painters such as Donatello and Ghiberti. He is known for his floating horses in a certain sophomore history class.

3 The Hunt in the Forest - Paolo Uccello (1470)
Celebrated in his lifetime as a painter of perspective and of animals and landscape, Uccello was a versatile artist who worked at times on mosaic and stained glass design. This painting is a late work, probably of c It is a highly original painting, both as a nocturnal landscape and as a brilliantly structured composition. Uccello mapped out a grid on the panel's surface as a guide for his design, fixing a central vanishing point. The devices of the huntsmen's spears, the cut branches and logs and the area of water denote this coherent space, inhabited by the receding forms of men and animals. Uccello's approach is also highly decorative, with bright, clear colours set off against a dark background: the foliage of the trees was once picked out with gold, accentuating the precious, mosaic-like effect. Hunting was an aristocratic pastime with its own rituals (and the crescent moon, symbol of Diana, the chaste goddess of the hunt, appears in the horses' trappings) and the idea here of a hunt by night is playful or symbolic rather than realistic. The panel painted for a luxurious domestic setting, perhaps in Urbino or in Florence.


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