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Paolo di Dono, better known as Paolo Uccello
(b.1397 - d.1475) was a  painter (and also a
creator of mosaics) in the employ and patronage of
the powerful Florence|Florentine Renaissance
family, the Medicis. Uccello is considered the
father of the art of the perspective.  

In paintings such as Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino
at the Battle of San Romano (c. 1438-1440), his
use of perspective and vanishing point created
fundamental changes in the way artists depict
spatial relations. In The Hunt (c. 1460), he
strives to make the running hounds three
dimensional, knowing that the spatial aspect was
critical to the viewer's enjoyment.

His most famous work, the painting 'Niccolò
Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano',
was commissioned by a wealthy Florentine banker,
and hung in his bedroom until his death. Ucello
painted it on three canvases, and art historians
speculate it originally had an upper half-sphere
on which a distant landscape and the sky were
painted. The banker bequethed the painting to his
sons, and soon after his death it stolen in an
audacious art theft orchestrated by Lorenzo de'
Medici. In order for it to fit into de' Medici's
bedroom the half-sphere was sawn off. 

The painting's three sections, each depicting a
stage of the San Romano war, are now housed in
England, Italy, and France.

Uccello's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's
Vite.

==Works==
The Battle of San Romano, a triptych consisting of
* Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of
San Romano
* Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino
della Ciarda at the Battle of San Romano
* The Counterattack of Michelotto da Cotignola at
the Battle of San Romano

==See also==
commonscat|Paolo Uccello
* List of painters
* List of Italian painters
* List of famous Italians

==External links==
*
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/u/uccello/bio
graph.html Uccello at CGFA.