Where can you see Paolo Uccello in Florence?

At the Florence Cathedral: Monument to Sir John Hawkwood and The clock of the cathedral. At the Uffizi Gallery: The Battle of San Romano. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Paolo Uccello's most famous work in Florence?

The Battle of San Romano, of about 1435 to 1440, at the Uffizi Gallery. The middle panel of three, with the Sienese commander knocked from his horse. Broken lances lie on the ground like the lines of a perspective drawing. The other two are in the National Gallery and the Louvre.

When and where was Paolo Uccello born?

In 1397, at Pratovecchio or Florence, Italy. Paolo Uccello died on 10 December 1475, at Florence, aged about 78.

What is Paolo Uccello known for?

Painted the Battle of San Romano in three panels, now in Florence, London and Paris. Painted the monument to Sir John Hawkwood in the cathedral in 1436. Designed the face of the cathedral's clock, which runs anticlockwise. Paolo Uccello was an Italian painter, of the Early Renaissance.

Painter, 1397 to 1475

Paolo Uccello

Uccello's wife said that he stayed up all night with his drawings of perspective, and that when she called him to bed he would answer how sweet a thing it was. His works in Florence show both what it gave him and what it cost.

Born: 1397, Pratovecchio or Florence, Italy
Died: 1475, Florence
Movement: Early Renaissance
In Florence: 3 works in 2 museums

Where to see Paolo Uccello in Florence

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Florence Cathedral2 works

Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
1436
A fresco made to look like a bronze horseman on a stone tomb, in memory of the English mercenary who led Florence's army. It is on the left wall of the nave.
The clock of the cathedral
1443
Above the main door, inside. It has one hand, twenty-four hours, and counts them backwards from sunset, with four heads of prophets in the corners.

Uffizi Gallery1 work

The Battle of San Romano
about 1435 to 1440
The middle panel of three, with the Sienese commander knocked from his horse. Broken lances lie on the ground like the lines of a perspective drawing. The other two are in the National Gallery and the Louvre.

The life of Paolo Uccello

Paolo di Dono, called Uccello, trained in the workshop of the sculptor Ghiberti in Florence and worked on mosaics in Venice before returning home. He painted frescoes for the cathedral and for Santa Maria Novella, and died poor and forgotten at seventy-eight.

The Battle of San Romano was painted in three panels for a Florentine family and later taken by Lorenzo de' Medici for his own bedroom. The other two are in the Uffizi and the Louvre.

What to know

Painted the Battle of San Romano in three panels, now in Florence, London and Paris
Painted the monument to Sir John Hawkwood in the cathedral in 1436
Designed the face of the cathedral's clock, which runs anticlockwise

Born: 1397, Pratovecchio or Florence, Italy
Died: 10 December 1475, Florence

Paolo Uccello: common questions

Where can you see Paolo Uccello in Florence?: At the Florence Cathedral: Monument to Sir John Hawkwood and The clock of the cathedral. At the Uffizi Gallery: The Battle of San Romano. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Paolo Uccello's most famous work in Florence?: The Battle of San Romano, of about 1435 to 1440, at the Uffizi Gallery. The middle panel of three, with the Sienese commander knocked from his horse. Broken lances lie on the ground like the lines of a perspective drawing. The other two are in the National Gallery and the Louvre.
When and where was Paolo Uccello born?: In 1397, at Pratovecchio or Florence, Italy. Paolo Uccello died on 10 December 1475, at Florence, aged about 78.
What is Paolo Uccello known for?: Painted the Battle of San Romano in three panels, now in Florence, London and Paris. Painted the monument to Sir John Hawkwood in the cathedral in 1436. Designed the face of the cathedral's clock, which runs anticlockwise. Paolo Uccello was an Italian painter, of the Early Renaissance.