Paolo Uccello

Paolo Uccello: He was born Paolo di Dono in 1397 in Florence and was apprenticed at an early age to the Florentine artist Lorenzo Ghiberti. In 1425, he traveled to Venice to design mosaics for the facade of Saint Mark’s Cathedral. After his return to Florence, he painted a fresco of English mercenary Sir John Hawkwood for the city’s cathedral in 1436. In about 1444, he executed a series of stained-glass windows for the cathedral. On one …

…them, his interpretation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is still in place. Fragments of his art also remain of frescoes Uccello painted in the Green Cloister of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, depicting the biblical stories of the creation and the deluge; the latter frescoes were executed about 1447. Because of his unfamiliarity, not much is known about Uccello and the periods of the latter part of his life. Uccello died in 1475 of unknown reasons.