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Celebrated in his lifetime as a painter of perspective and of animals and landscape, Uccello was a versatile artist who worked at times on mosaic and stained-glass design. This painting is a late work, probably of c.1470. It is a highly original painting, both as a nocturnal landscape and as a brilliantly structured composition. Uccello mapped out a grid on the panel's surface as a guide for his design, fixing a central vanishing point. The devices of the huntsmen's spears, the cut branches and logs and the area of water denote this coherent space, inhabited by the receding forms of men and animals. Uccello's approach is also highly decorative, with bright, clear colours set off against a dark background: the foliage of the trees was once picked out with gold, accentuating the precious, mosaic-like effect.
Title
The Hunt in the Forest
Date
c. 1470
Medium
tempera & oil, with traces of gold, on panel
Measurements
H 73.3 x W 177 cm
Accession number
WA1850.31
Acquisition method
Fox-Strangways Gift, 1850
Work type
Painting
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH England
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