Thinking of getting creative at home?

🐲 On try recreating Uccello's 'Saint George and the Dragon' with the help of some cuddly toys, just like Christine, our Head of Curatorial, did!

Learn more about the painting here: https://t.co/eTW1QQ6jhb

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🐲 Happy Saint George taming then slaying a dragon is one of the most fantastic saints‘ legends of the Middle Ages.

Here Uccello has compressed two parts of the story into one small and strange picture. Find out how here: https://t.co/eTW1QQ6jhb

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E nel bosco sacro, nell'orrido degli alberi,
Maestosamente eretti, i Marmi oscuri, Dèi,
Sulla cui fronte l'Uccello Silvestre ha il suo nido,
- Gli Dèi ascoltano l'Uomo, e il Mondo infinito!
A.Rimbaud -Credo in unam

Buon pomeriggio🌹
Renoir

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Here’s my made-at-home ’St George & Dragon’ (NG6294) by Uccello . Amazing what you can do with toys, quilt/pillow covers, socks, a cycling helmet and raiding the balcony!
https://t.co/5efhuC0Rgv

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ho scelto tre testi. Il racconto dell'ancella So perché l'uccello in gabbia canta Una stanza tutta per sé
E i vostri libri?https://t.co/oNqUBkq8qQ

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Hey there! I'm a sucker for renaissance and romanticist paintings. My faves are Paolo Uccello, Caspar Friedrich and Hubert Robert

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"Come un uccello sul filo
Come un ubriaco in un coro di mezzanotte
Ho cercato,a modo mio di essere libero"
Leonard Cohen
Bird on the wire https://t.co/Ed9Vp17m5f

R.Magritte 🎨






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O cielo, se, un giorno, volessi
Da questa muta gabbia prendere il volo,
Che direi agli occhi in lacrime del bambino:
Perdonami, io sono un uccello in cattività.


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Paolo Uccello(1397-1475)Florentine painter/mathematician.Notable 4 pioneering work on visual perspective in art.Vasari wrote:Paolo was obsessed by interest in perspective,would stay up all night 2 grasp exact vanishing point.Used perspective 2 create feeling of depth in paintings

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Saint George and the Dragon is a painting by Paolo Uccello dating from around 1470. It is on display in the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

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Andy Warhol - St George & The Dragon, from a signed limited edition of just 50 copies.
The inspiration behind this vibrant image was taken from Paul Uccello's great painting of the slaying of the dragon made in 1470, with the focus on the dragon's butterfly-like wing

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Well, I'm not in London enough to have a favourite room, but I'll say 59, as I like the Uccello painting so much that I did a comic about it...

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ビキニの日には間に合わなかったけれど・・・
Pixivに投稿しました❗
「死の鳥」も二羽目だよ



死の鳥 Uccello della morte フィレンツェ編 | kondosan https://t.co/aWOJ011y1t

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got you dreaming of dragons? Here's Uccello's ‘Saint George and the Dragon' in honour of (spoiler alert… the dragon dies): https://t.co/mNIFJkadgu

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Paolo Uccello Storia della vergine' Florence (1453)

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l'orologio liturgico affrescato da Paolo Uccello (1443) sulla controfacciata della Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore a Firenze.

Agli angoli, quattro teste di profeti o evangelisti si sporgono da oculi dipinti in trompe-l'oeil guardando ciascuna in direzioni diverse.

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(1) Perspective was a key development of the Renaissance & Paola Uccello (1397-1475) was the main mover in the area. Such was his obsession that his wife complained he would never go to bed until the small hours. Before his time, images had no pictorial depth

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