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AT URBINO
123
been guilty of this act of sacrilege, is told with start-
ling vividness. All the different actors in the story,
the frightened children, the horses and soldiers who
force open the doors of the house, the solemn pro-
cession of priests and magistrates, are represented in
the most life-like manner ; while the skilfully lighted
interior, and the pleasant landscape with its orchards
and gardens along the mountain-side, are reproduced
with a truth and fidelity that make us realise the
marvellous advance which had been effected during
the lifetime of this one master. The presence of
Paolo at Urbino is commemorated by Raphael’s father
Giovanni Santi, who gives Uccello a place among the
illustrious painters in his rhyming Chronicle. By the
following year he was back in Florence, where he
describes himself in his income-tax return as old
and ailing and quite unable to work, while his wife,
Mona Tommasa, is also ill. Paolo had married late
in life, after his return from Padua, and had a son of
sixteen, named after his friend Donatello, and a
daughter Antonia, who is described as being herself
an artist, and who became a Carmelite nun after her
father’s death. Six years later, on the 11 th of
December, 1475, Paolo Uccello died, and was buried
in his father’s sepulchre in San Spirito.
Chief Works-
Florence.—Duomo: Frescoes—Equestrian Portrait of
Sir John Hawkwood, Four Heads of
Prophets.
,, S. Maria Novella—Chiostro Verde:
Frescoes — The Creation, Deluge,
Sacrifice of Noah.
,, Uffizi: 52. Battle of S. Romano.
AT URBINO
123
been guilty of this act of sacrilege, is told with start-
ling vividness. All the different actors in the story,
the frightened children, the horses and soldiers who
force open the doors of the house, the solemn pro-
cession of priests and magistrates, are represented in
the most life-like manner ; while the skilfully lighted
interior, and the pleasant landscape with its orchards
and gardens along the mountain-side, are reproduced
with a truth and fidelity that make us realise the
marvellous advance which had been effected during
the lifetime of this one master. The presence of
Paolo at Urbino is commemorated by Raphael’s father
Giovanni Santi, who gives Uccello a place among the
illustrious painters in his rhyming Chronicle. By the
following year he was back in Florence, where he
describes himself in his income-tax return as old
and ailing and quite unable to work, while his wife,
Mona Tommasa, is also ill. Paolo had married late
in life, after his return from Padua, and had a son of
sixteen, named after his friend Donatello, and a
daughter Antonia, who is described as being herself
an artist, and who became a Carmelite nun after her
father’s death. Six years later, on the 11 th of
December, 1475, Paolo Uccello died, and was buried
in his father’s sepulchre in San Spirito.
Chief Works-
Florence.—Duomo: Frescoes—Equestrian Portrait of
Sir John Hawkwood, Four Heads of
Prophets.
,, S. Maria Novella—Chiostro Verde:
Frescoes — The Creation, Deluge,
Sacrifice of Noah.
,, Uffizi: 52. Battle of S. Romano.