Paolo Uccello
Italian·1397–1475
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Paolo Uccello (1397-1475) was a Florentine painter who became obsessed with the mathematical possibilities of linear perspective. Born Paolo di Dono, he trained in Ghiberti's workshop and developed a unique style combining Gothic decorative richness with pioneering perspective experiments.
His three-panel Battle of San Romano cycle, split between London, Florence, and Paris, uses tilted lances, fallen soldiers, and geometric ground planes to create dizzying spatial effects. Vasari wrote that Uccello's wife complained he spent his nights studying perspective when he should have been sleeping. His work influenced later artists from Piero della Francesca to the Cubists.
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About Paolo Uccello
Uccello pioneered linear perspective experiments in painting. His Battle of San Romano panels use dramatic foreshortening and geometric composition that were revolutionary for 15th-century Renaissance art.
The three Battle of San Romano panels are split between the National Gallery (London), the Uffizi (Florence), and the Louvre (Paris).
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