UCCELLO, PAOLO

born 1397, Pratovecchio, near Florence died Dec. 10, 1475, Florence original name Paolo Di Dono Florentine painter whose work attempted uniquely to reconcile two distinct artistic stylesthe essentially decorative late Gothic and the new heroic style of the early Renaissance. Probably his most famous paintings are three panels representing The Battle of San Romano (c. 1456). His careful and sophisticated perspective studies are clearly evident in The Flood (144748). Additional reading The standard and most readable and complete work on Uccello (and his followers) in English is John Pope-Hennessy, Paolo Uccello, 2nd ed. (1969). Eve Borsook discusses Uccello's Florentine frescoes in The Mural Painters of Tuscany, from Cimabue to Andrea del Sarto (1960). Uccello's role in the investigation of perspective is mentioned by John White in The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space, 2nd ed. (1967); and this subject is treated more fully by Alessandro Parronchi in Studi su la dolce prospettiva (1964). Major Works: The Creation of the Animals; The Creation of Adam; The Creation of Eve; The Fall (frescoes, early 1430s; Sta. Maria Novella, Florence); Sir John Hawkwood (fresco, 1436; cathedral, Florence); Scenes from Monastic Legends (frescoes, c. 1440; S. Miniato al Monte, Florence); The Flood, The Recession of the Flood, The Sacrifice of Noah, and The Drunkenness of Noah (144748; Sta. Maria Novella); The Battle of San Romano (c. 1456; panels in the National Gallery, London; Uffizi, Florence; and the Louvre, Paris); St. George and the Dragon (1455?60; Muse Jacquemart-Andr, Paris); St. George and the Dragon (c. 1460; National Gallery); The Profanation of the Host (c. 146669; Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino, Italy); A Hunt in a Forest (after 1460; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford); The Founders of Florentine Art (after 1460?; Louvre).