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Paolo Uccello

1475 - 1475

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Paolo Uccello ( oo-CHEL-oh, Italian: [ˈpaːolo utˈtʃɛllo]; 1397 – 10 December 1475), born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian Renaissance painter and mathematician from Florence who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. In his book Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point. Uccello used perspective to create a feeling of depth in his paintings. His best known works are the three paintings representing the battle of San Romano, which were wrongly entitled the Battle of Sant'Egidio of 1416 for a long period of time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paolo Uccello is the 95th most popular painter (down from 90th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Italy (down from 304th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Italian Painter.

Paolo Uccello is most famous for his paintings of the Battle of San Romano.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paolo Uccello ranks 95 out of 2,023. Before him are Duccio, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Cimabue, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Oskar Kokoschka, and Honoré Daumier. After him are Vittore Carpaccio, Paul Signac, Sofonisba Anguissola, Claude Lorrain, Andrei Rublev, and Filippo Lippi.

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Among people born in 1475, Paolo Uccello ranks 4. Before him are Michelangelo, Pope Leo X, and Cesare Borgia. After him are Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Diego de Almagro, Beatrice d'Este, Sebastiano Serlio, Bernardino Luini, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Anne of York, and Afonso, Prince of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1475, Paolo Uccello ranks 1. After him are Radu cel Frumos, Dieric Bouts, Petrus Christus, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Joan of Portugal, Afanasy Nikitin, Simon of Trent, Albert van Ouwater, Theodorus Gaza, Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Sin Sukju.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Paolo Uccello ranks 349 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Felix III (440), Pope Alexander IV (1200), Pope Gregory IV (790), Marsilio Ficino (1433), Gordian III (225), and Juvenal (50). After him are Giorgio Armani (1934), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Pope Benedict III (810), Benvenuto Cellini (1500), Pope Nicholas III (1215), and Aldo Moro (1916).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Paolo Uccello ranks 27. Before him are Pietro Perugino (1446), Canaletto (1697), Bronzino (1503), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), Duccio (1255), and Cimabue (1240). After him are Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Sofonisba Anguissola (1535), Filippo Lippi (1406), Guido Reni (1575), Antonio da Correggio (1489), and Lisa del Giocondo (1479).

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