When was uccello born

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Lo Scheggia - Shortly afterwards he painted three frescoes with scenes from the life of Saint Francis above the left door of the Santa Trinita church. For the Santa Maria Maggiore church he painted a fresco of the Annunciation. In this fresco, he painted a large building with columns in perspective. Vasari writes that people thought this was a great and beautiful achievement.

Paolo painted the Lives of the Church Fathers in the cloisters of the church of San Miniato, on a hill overlooking Florence.

For this fresco he used unusual colours blue pastures, red bricks and different colours for the buildings as a protest against his monotonous meals served by the abbot: cheese pies and cheese soup. In the end Paolo felt so miserable that he ran away. He only finished the job after the abbot promised to serve him normal meals. Paolo was asked to paint a number of scenes of distempered animals for the house of the Medici. His depiction of a fierce lion fighting with a venom-spouting snake was especially appreciated by Vasari.

Ucello loved to paint animals and he kept a large number of pictures of all kinds of animals, especially birds, at home. Because he was so fond of birds, he was aptly nicknamed Paolo Uccelli Paul of the birds. By Paolo was earning his own living as a painter. In that year he painted episodes of the Creation and expulsion for the Green Cloister Chiostro Verde of Santa Maria Novella in Florence now badly damaged , proving his artistic maturity.

Again, he was able to paint in a lively manner a large number of animals. As he succeeded in painting trees in their natural colours, in contrast with many of his predecessors, he began to acquire a reputation for painting landscapes. He continued with scenes from the Deluge, the story of Noah's Ark, Noah's sacrifice and Noah's drunkenness. These scenes brought him great fame in Florence.

In Uccello travelled to Venice, where he worked on the mosaics for the facade of San Marco all these works have been lost. Some suggest he visited Rome with his friend Donatello before returning to Florence in He also painted some frescoes in the Prato Cathedral and Bologna. In the Office of Works asked the Florentine ambassador in Venice to enquire after Uccello's reputation as an artist. Uccello remained in Florence for most of the rest of his life, executing works for various churches and patrons, most notably the Duomo.

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