Paolo Uccello - Softcover

Franco Borsi; Stefano Borsi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500092419 ISBN 13: 9780500092415

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1994

Synopsis

This new, splendidly illustrated study re-emphasises the genius of Uccello by looking again at the fifteenth century in Florence, and considering the period as one in which the Gothic and Renaissance tranditions worked together in a creative synthesis.

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Synopsis:

Paolo Uccello's works have long fascinated the public; yet academic opinion has been uncomfortable with his status as a Renaissance artist. His often fantastical compositions, his experiments with perspective, his sympathy with the Gothic, his strange and secretive character, all excluded him from the austere, realist, heroic tradition exemplified by Brunelleschi, Masaccio and Alberta. This illustrated study sets out to explore the mysterious genius of Uccello. A catalogue raisonne brings together all his surviving works. Many of these, such as the famous "Battle of San Romano" panel in the National Gallery, London, are presented in full-colour foldouts, and other lesser-known paintings are reproduced in colour. His frescoes are illustrated in full, and the relations between sites and compositions are examined in detail. Chapters on Uccello's ideas and contemporary culture reject the conventional notion of a radical split between Gothic and Renaissance to show him as a natural representative of his time, while descriptions of contemporary Florence situate him in the context of his home city.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0500092419
• ISBN 13: 9780500092415
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376