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Paolo di Dono known as Paolo Uccello Painter Pratovecchio, Firenze 1397-1475 The son of Dono di Paolo, surgeon and barber, and Antonia di Giovanni del Beccuto, was not only a wonderful painter, rightly acclaimed over the centuries, but also an extremely original and rather different artist in the Florence that was awakening to the Renaissance: it is not at all surprising that his work, the ...

Paolo Uccello's Polyhedra Paolo Uccello (1397-1475) was a Florentine painter and mosaicist important for helping to establish the perspective style in early Renaissance art. He also was a lover of geometry and had a strong influence in the practice of including polyhedral forms in artwork. At right is a detail of his 1448 fresco The Flood showing a figure wearing a mazzocchio --- a hat in the ...

An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...