The Hunt in the Forest Size:large is now in the collection

is now in the collection of the Royal Armouries

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

All three are concerned with the history of early man

The noise and drama of battle is effectively conveyed

including realistic detail of dead and wounded

The Hunt in the Forest Size:large is now in the collectionCelebrated 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