The Hunt in the Forest

The Hunt in the Forest (also known as The Hunt by Night or simply The Hunt) is a painting by the Italian artist Paolo Uccello, made around 1470. It is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England.

The painting is an example of linear perspective in Renaissance art, a mathematical system developed to create the appearance of depth on a flat surface. To do this, Uccello created a grid on the panel and diminished the scale of the figures, animals, and objects in relation to a central vanishing point.

Paolo Uccello was known for perspective work and his paintings of animals and landscapes. Due to this his nickname, Uccello('Bird') alludes to his depictions of the natural world. He was also known to be a versatile artist who also worked on mosaic or stained glass commissions.

The panel was probably part of a cassone, a painted chest associated with marriage in the Italian Renaissan…

摘自英文维基百科「The Hunt in the Forest」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。