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Not Charlie Parker this time! I'm thinking of the great Florentine frescoist Paulo Uccello (Paul Byrd). If you've spent time in Florence or Urbino, you will no doubt have a visual memory of Uccello's distinctive, almost eccentric painting. His best known works are equestrian battle scenes featuring a veritable forest of lances jabbing askew and akimbo. The subject of this extraordinary book is a single painting, "The Hunt in the Forest", which was Uccello's last major work, finished around 1470. Author Catherine Whistler analyzes the context of Uccello's work, his techniques of painting, and especially the "semiotics" of such a mysterious image. This edition is frightfully expensive, but 'amazon' is promising a new edition at a fine price, which one can pre-order.

Uccello (1397-1475) was something of an anomaly. He studied with Ghiberti and became a close friend of Donatello, yet in most ways he remained extremely conservative in manner, not at all interested in the humanist "realism" of his contemporaries. His treatment of human figures is consistently more medieval than "Renaissance", a Late Gothic painter to the end, devoted to brightness, to color and pageantry. However, he was also a mathematician of some genius, and obsessed with "perspective", with the representation of depth on a flat surface. In that way, he was extremely influential on later artists. His 'vision' was obviously dominant on the younger Piero della Francesca, but his handling of perspective and perhaps even his Gothic hermeticism strongly attracted both Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

One Sunday night while watching pbs'"Masterpiece Theatre",this came out in the story's lines.A Mystery Murder to unfurl of course!Hunny and I try to solve prior to Kevin Whatley's character and Laurence Fox' character.In a Museum,alledgedly "true" is a Thoughtfull Paolo Uccello Painting~"The Hunt In The Forest".So intrigued,had to look and find out can I procure a copy in Any form? Of course,Amazon! Always delivers to me.This is a deeply haunting Painting with Levels of Metaphors cannot begin to peel back in length of this Missive.An "East~West" Painting so completely Beautifull I weep.At least half a dozen views before Anyone can speak a coherent sentence.If Adore Art in ANY Genre,Buy this Book.Keep out to Proudly Show.More Lovelies to Discover by Senore Paolo Uccello.