31,7" PAOLO UCCELLO "The Battle of San Romano" painting art printed on canvas
PAOLO UCCELLO (1397 - 1475)
Title of artwork: "The Battle of San Romano"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1450
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 31,7" or 80,6 cm.
Size: 27,6" x 15,7" (in) or 70 x 40 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Paolo Uccello, born Paolo di Dono, was a Florentine 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 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. While his contemporaries used perspective to narrate different
or succeeding stories, 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. His style is best described as idiosyncratic, and he
left no school of followers. He has had some influence on twentieth-century art
and literary criticism (e.g., in the Vies imaginaires by Marcel Schwob, Uccello
le poil by Antonin Artaud and O Mundo Como Ideia by Bruno Tolentino).
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