Many of his contemporaries considered the painter Paolo Uccello, who was born in Florence, to be eccentric, some even declared him to be crazy. The artist's civil name was Paolo di Dono, but he became known as Paolo Uccello. He was nicknamed Uccello (bird) because he had depicted countless birds and other animals in his frescoes. Throughout his life Uccello was considered eccentric, melancholic and difficult. No one understood his enthusiasm for spatial perspective, which bordered on obsession. He was influenced by works Donatellos and Tommaso Masaccios. He always endeavoured to depict people and animals in frescoes in three dimensions. The painter often immersed himself for weeks in his mathematical studies of spatial perspective. He was fascinated by geometric forms and their plasticity. The sculptor Donatello, however, believed that Uccello was too preoccupied with the representation of male headgear and wasted his talent on senseless studies. But Uccello continued to devote himself intensively to geometry and mathematics. Even the painter's colouring was new for his time. Uccello immersed cities and landscapes in colors that did not correspond to reality. A painting style that only reappeared centuries later with Expressionism. Uccello's artistic freedom was incomprehensible to his contemporaries. The painter became better known for his vivid-looking battle scenes, which he created from 1440 for the powerful De Medici family. Here too, people and animals were painted three-dimensionally.
Uccello influenced the painting style of the early Renaissance. He was born into a time of beginning upheavals. At the beginning of the 15th century a new artistic era began for Italian painting and sculpture. The Catholic Church, rich dynasties and wealthy merchants brought new sources of income to the artists. Paolo Uccello first learned the art of sculpture and worked in the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti. He then went to Venice, where he made mosaics for the church of San Marco. In the following years he created important frescoes in Florence. Interesting is the three-dimensional representation of a monument to an equestrian. The viewer sees the statue diagonally from below. This created the illusion that one sees a sculptural work in front of him. Here the artist's meticulous preoccupation with spatial perspective was particularly evident. At the end of his life, Uccello received fewer and fewer commissions. His apparent eccentricity increasingly isolated him from his fellow men. Uccello had to repeatedly ask for financial support. Despite his modern approach, Paolo Uccello's painting style remained medieval. His preoccupation with perspective became the theme of his life. Today, the painter is considered a pioneer of perspective painting.
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.jpg "The Creation of the Animals and of Adam (detail of the creation of Adam) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Oculus depicting The Resurrection, 1443 by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Battle of San Romano (detail of Bernardino della Ciarda bucked off his horse) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Predella of the Profanation of the Host: The Pope Returning the Consecrated Host to the Altar, c.1468 (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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_1436_(fresco_transferred_to_c_-_(MeisterDrucke-59047).jpg "Equestrian Monument of Sir John Hawkwood (1320-94), 1436 by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Birth of the Virgin, from the Chapel of the Assumption by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Predella of the Profanation of the Host: The Christian Woman Forced to Redeem her Cloak at the Price of the Consecrated Host by a Jewish Pawnbroker (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Italian Poet and Religious Jacopo de Benedetti (Jacopone da Todi) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Condottiere John Hawk by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "A Young Lady of Fashion, 1462-1465 by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Repentant Christian Woman is Hanged for Pawning the Consecrated Host (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Birth of the Virgin (detail of a standing maid servant) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Detail of Niccolo da Tolentino, from the Battle of San Romano in 1432, c.1456 by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Great Flood and the Retreat of the Water (detail of the man against the fortification at the bottom left) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Nativity of the Virgin (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Noah and the Flood, Fresco in the Chiostro Verde by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Birth of the Virgin, from the Chapel of the Assumption, 1440 by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Predella of the Profanation of the Host: The Body of the Jewish Pawnbroker Guarded by Angels and Devils (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "St George Slaying the Dragon by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Sacrifice and Euphoria of Noah, 1446-8 by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Story of Noah, the Drunkenness by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Study of Chalice with Angel by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Battle of San Romano in 1432: The Unseating of Bernardino della Carda by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Dispute of St. Stephen (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Predella of the Profanation of the Host: The Jewish Pawnbroker and his Family Burned at the Stake for Roasting the Consecrated Host (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Birth of the Virgin (detail of a seated maid servant) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Predella Showing Christ Rising from the Tomb Between the Madonna and St. John by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Scene of eremitic life or Thebaide: depiction of scenes of the life of monks and saints by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Predella of the Profanation of the Host: The Jewish Pawnbroker Roasting the Consecrated Host in the Fire Which Streams with Blood Arousing the Attention of the Bailiffs who Batter Down the Door (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Predella of the Profanation of the Host (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Oculus depicting The Nativity, 1443 by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "Crucifixion by Paolo Uccello")
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.jpg "The Birth of the Virgin (detail) by Paolo Uccello")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1461338).jpg "Scenes from Monastic Life (Tebaide) by Paolo Uccello")
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