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Paolo Uccello Biography

(1396-97 -- 1475)
Florentine painter, one of the most distinctive artists of the early Renaissance

Employee of: Lorenzo Ghiberti (1381-1455)

Paolo Uccello (born Paolo di Dono, 1397 – 10 December 1475) was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Paolo Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point. He used perspective in order to create a feeling of depth in religious paintings and not, as his contemporaries, to narrate different or succeeding stories. His best known art are the three works representing the battle of San Romano (for a long time these were wrongly entitled the "Battle of Sant' Egidio of 1416").

Paolo worked in the Late Gothic tradition, and emphasized colour and pageantry rather than the Classical realism that other artists were pioneering. His style is best described as idiosyncratic, and he left no school of followers. He has had some influence on twentieth century art

Paolo Uccello worked in the Late Gothic tradition, and emphasized colour and pageantry rather than the Classical realism that other artists were pioneering. His style is best described as idiosyncratic, and he left no school of followers. The artist has had some influence on twentieth century art (including the New Zealand painter Melvin Day) and literary criticism.

According to Vasari, Uccello’s first painting was a Saint Anthony between the saints Cosmas and Damianus, a commission for the hospital of Lelmo. Next he painted two figures in the convent of Annalena. The Early Renaissance master painted the Lives of the Church Fathers in the cloisters of the church of San Miniato, on a hill overlooking Florence. As he succeeded in painting trees in their natural colours, in contrast with many of his predecessors, Paolo Uccello began to acquire a reputation for painting landscapes. He continued with scenes from the Deluge, the story of Noah's Ark, Noah's sacrifice and Noah's drunkenness. These scenes brought him great fame in Florence.