BOOK REVIEW

The Independent - London | June 19, 1994| | Copyright

IN their fat and handsome monograph, Paolo Uccello (Thames & Hudson pounds 60), Franco and Stefano Borsi set their man up, from the start, as an enigma - a "notoriously strange and secretive character" whose adherence to the Gothic style, fantastical compositions and cavalier way with perspective meant that he was relegated to the sidelines of the emerging Renaissance.

This is not meant as a tease, of course, but it is a very good way to start a fairly technical book about an artist who is a great favourite with non- specialists (is there something about his quirkiness, his dark cartooning, ...

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