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UCCELLO, Paolo
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St._George_and_the_Dragon_at
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c._1456
Oil_on_canvas,_57_x_73_cm
National_Gallery,_London
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St. George and the Dragon at
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Oil on canvas, 57 x 73 cm
National Gallery, London |
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Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1397-1475
Italian painter, draughtsman, mosaicist and designer of stained glass. His work vividly illustrates the principal issues of Florentine art during the first half of the 15th century. Trained within the tradition of the Late Gothic style, he eventually became a leading exponent of the application of linear perspective based on the mathematical system established by Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti. It is the merging of these two diametrically opposed tendencies that forms the basis of Uccello's style. As well as painting on panel and in fresco
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