Paulo Uccello1397-1475

By Coady Cullen Mr.Power

• Paulo Uccello was a Renaissance artist. He was one of the first people to use perspective in his paintings

Backround• Paullo Uccello was born in 1397. He was the son

of a barber, and lived in Florence. Paulo Uccello’s real name as Palo di Dono, but his name to Uccello, meaning “bird” in Italianb, because of his love animals.

• Uccello was always poor because money did not matter to him; only his paintings did. At the age of 14, he was admitted to the Guild of Florentine Artists. In the 1450's Paolo Uccello had Piero de Medici as a patron. Uccello was apprenticed to the sculptor, Lorenzo Ghiberti.

• Paolo Uccello passed away in 1475 , at the age of 78.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Paolo Uccello was known for his

studies in foreshortening (to make the lines shorter than they really are to give an illusion of proper perspective) and linear perspective.

• He loved using the forms and movement of humans and animals in his paintings. Paolo Uccello's paintings are very famous for improbable tangles of horses, riders, lances and pennants, helmets and bits of landscape.

Paulo’s famous paintings:

The three panels:

The Battle of San Romana

The DelugeNight Hunt

He also painted portraits of:• Sir John Hakins Giotto

Brunneleschi St George and the dragon

• Uccello's paintings resemble life and confuse us into mistaking illusions for reality.• Paolo was not only a painter but also a mathematician.• Paolo Uccello’s impact on people was the perspective he used in his paintings. Also an impact of his was his use of brilliant colours and the fantastic effects in his paintings.

At San Miniato• While Uccello was still quite young he got an

important job to do, all by himself. He was asked to paint some frescoes showing stories of different saints for the monks of a Church of San Miniato, on a mountain above Florence. It was a large beautiful church, the monks at the monastery did not eat expensive food. They only ate bread and cheese! So Uccello also ate nothing but bread and cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner, sometimes made into soup. After a few weeks he thought he was turning into cheese! So he ran away from the monastery and went back to Florence , leaving his work unfinished.

Frescoes in San Miniato

At Florence Cat• In 1436 he was back in Florence to do some important jobs

for Florence Cathedral. The first was to paint a large fresco in honour of an English Knight, Sir John Hawkwood.

• The painting of Sir John is quite unusual. It is of Sir John on his war horse. Uccello has painted it to look like a statue of the soldier on his horse. The horse is standing on a painted plinth like the base of a statue and Sir John's name is written on the plinth, as if the statue was standing in the town square. And in large letters are words which translate as "The Work of Paolo Uccello". The painting was very popular, and some years later, another soldier was remembered in the same way with a painting by the artist Andrea Castagno.

• The second job that Uccello had at the Cathedral was to paint the clock. The clock has two faces, one that can be seen outside in the square and another which is on an inside wall of the cathedral.

The two faced clock Sir John Hakwood

By Coady Cullen