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attributed to Uccello
(15th Jun, 1397 - 10th Dec, 1475)
Figure sphérique hérissée de pointes acérées
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michèle Bellot
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
sphere (shape)
geometry
Italian Renaissance
polyhedron
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About the artwork
Title:
Figure sphérique hérissée de pointes acérées
Periods:
période médiévale - Bas Moyen Âge
15th century
renaissance
XVth century
Techniques:
pen (drawing)
wash with brown
brown ink
Inventory number:
INV1969
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
attributed to
Uccello
Also known as:
di Dono Paolo
Born:
15th Jun, 1397
Dead:
10th Dec, 1475
Country:
Italie
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Paolo Uccello
(Italian pronunciation:
[ˈpaːolo utˈtʃɛllo]
; 1397 – 10 December 1475), born
Paolo di Dono
, was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book
Lives of the Artists
wrote that 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 and not, as…
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