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Uccello
(15th Jun, 1397 - 10th Dec, 1475)
Portrait de Louis II, roi de Naples, de profil, coiffé, et couronné
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Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Suzanne Nagy
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
humanism (theory)
bonnet (chapeau)
annotation
beard
book
hairstyle
reading
face study
Italian Renaissance
crown
portrait of a man
profil gauche
foliage
personnalité (époque de l'Italie communale)
king
histoire de l'Italie du sud
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About the artwork
Title:
Portrait de Louis II, roi de Naples, de profil, coiffé, et couronné
Periods:
15th century
renaissance
XVth century
Techniques:
brown ink
wash with brown
black chalk
beige paper
wash with grey
pen (drawing)
sanguine
wash drawing
Dimensions:
136 x 93
Inventory number:
INV9849-recto; INV9849-Bis-recto
Detail:
Portrait de Manuel Chrysoloras, coiffé d'un bonnet et tenant un livre
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
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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