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Florentine School ca 1500 - 1565 Five Famous Men (The Fathers of Perspective) |
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This 210cm x 42cm Wooden panel, much repainted, was originally thought to be by Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475 (78)), but now the consensus is that it was painted a bit later. The consensus is also that the faces do not all match the names inscribed underneath them by some helpful soul some time after the painting was done. The true identities are thought to be (left to right) Antonio Manetti (Brunelleschi's biographer and mathematician friend of Uccello, who was a perspective freak), Donatello, Paolo Uccello, Tommaso Masaccio, and Filippo Brunelleschi. |
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Probably Antonio Manetti 1423 - 1497 (74) |
Probably Donatello de'Bardi 1396 - 1466 (70) |
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Probably Paolo Uccello 1397 - 1475 (98) |
Probably Tommaso Masaccio 1400 - 1428 (28) |
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If ever a piece of art was place specific (in this case Florence) it is this one, but you will have to go to the Louvre in Paris to see it. Could that have something to do with Napoleon? |
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| Probably Filippo Brunelleschi (more portraits) 1377 - 1446 (69) | |
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