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Paolo Uccello
An Italian painter, born in Florence, Uccello was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) wrote in his book Lives of the Artists 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. He used perspective in order to create a feeling of depth in his paintings and not, as his contemporaries, to narrate different or succeeding stories.
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, though he had some influence on twentieth century art and literary criticism. He trained in the workshop of the sculptor, Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 – 1455), where he started a life-long friendship with the influential Donatello (1386 – 1466).
His masterwork, once called Battle of Sant’Egidio of 1416, but now known as, Battle of San Romano, is a triptych, now dispersed to the
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Annunciation (Uccello)
c. 1425 painting by Paolo Uccello
| Annunciation | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Paolo Uccello |
| Year | c. 1425 |
| Medium | Gold and tempera on panel |
| Dimensions | 52.1 cm cm × 42.5 cm cm (?? × ??) |
| Location | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England |
Annunciation is a gold and tempera on panel painting by Paolo Uccello executed c. 1425. 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. Van Male attributed to the Master of the Castello Nativity in 1929, but three years later Bernard Berenson instead attributed it to Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio from Siena. In 1938 Mario Salmi attributed it to Dello Delli, while in 1975 Parronchi argued it was an early work by Alesso Baldovinetti. Georg Pudelko and John Pope-Hennessy first noted Uccello's strong influence on the work in 1935 and 1939 respectively by comparison with his Saint George (now in Melbourne).
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Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds
Author: Paolo Uccello Painted in: Florence 1397-1475 Framework: Sinopia, 140x215 Located in: Filippo and Filippino Lippi Room
It is the sinopia of a fresco painted around 1446 in a lunette of the cloister of the hospital of San Martino alla Scala. At the Uffizi since 1982.
Author: Paolo Uccello
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