The Hunt in the Forest Size:large and the Mount of Olives

and the Mount of Olives to the left

The composition

this little picture may have formed part of a larger set of painted fronts for small drawers in a cabinet

The noise and drama of battle is effectively conveyed

including realistic detail of dead and wounded

The Hunt in the Forest Size:large and the Mount of OlivesCelebrated 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