The Peculiar Perspective of Paolo Uccello a talk by Helen Oakden.

This explores the strange, compelling world of Paolo Uccello, a Florentine painter whose career sits at the intersection of late Gothic ornamentation and the emerging scientific ambitions of the Early Renaissance. Despite Uccello not being particularly well known, he occupies a crucial place in the history of perspective and his legacy influenced not only later painters,but art historians who realised his “obsession” with perspective was a defining anecdote in Renaissance art history.