Paolo Uccello
Uccello was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point. He used perspective in order to create a feeling of depth in his paintings.His style is best described as idiosyncratic
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| The early Renaissance master Paolo Uccello created this “wireframe” perspective drawing of a Chalice around 1450 |
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| Saint George and the Dragon (c. 1470), showing Uccello's Gothic influences |
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| Paolo Uccello,
Perspective Study of a Mazzocchio |
The elaborate system
of projection can be reconstructed from incised lines on the original drawings
