UCCELLO, Paolo
(b. 1397, Firenze, d. 1475, Firenze)

An Angel (detail)

c. 1435
Fresco
San Miniato al Monte, Florence

Uccello painted stories from the lives of Hermit Saints in the upper loggia of the cloister of San Miniato al Monte. A feeling of abstraction pervades these scenes, today no more than a group of fragments of faded and almost undecipherable images, in which we can make out a few architectural structures shown in accurate perspective and some monks laid out according to geometric patterns.

The picture shows a fragment representing an angel.




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