PAOLO UCCELLO: The battle of San Romano (advance of the Florentine troops), 1451 – oil on table, 182- 323 cm. - Florence, Uffizzi

“Oh che dolce cosa è questa prospettiva!” Paolo Uccello

“Solitary, eccentric, melancholic and poor”. Giorgio Vasari described with these four words one of the most audacious geniuses of the early Florentine Renaissance. Paolo Uccello is really the solitary perspective lover, who shows in this late work - painted with almost sixty years old- his interest to the new sciences of the perspective, the arrangement of the composition through the standards and lances, and his personal interest for the figure of the horse. Uccello painted three tables on this subject, which would have constituted an impressive composition in the Medici's Palace. The table show here was the central one.