Italian - English
Definition of uccello in Italian English dictionary
- bird, fowl
- cock, rooster, any male bird
- unguis
- shorebird
- birdlike
English - English
Definition of uccello in English English dictionary
- Paolo Uccello (born Paolo di Dono, 1397 – December 10 1475) was an Italian painter who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point. He used perspective in order to create a feeling of depth in his paintings and not, as his contemporaries, to narrate different or succeeding stories