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The Eyes of the Artists - Uccello's Greatest Battle

23/4/2017

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​15th Century Florence - Paolo Uccello
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​“A painter is too obsessed with the new science of perspective, to worry about making a living from painting. When his wife pressures hi to secure a commission, he promises an epic battle series for a local godfather: slowly it dawns on him what he's taken on, and 
just what’s at stake”.

Visual Style
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The story will be drawn in a clear line drawing style with accurate perspective. It will be in primarily flat colouring, with minimum tonal modelling, to reflect Uccello's style (above and below).

Synopsis


Florence - early Renaissance. Paolo Uccello is obsessed with the emerging techniques of perspective drawing. Pressurised by his wife to get a commission, he promises an ambitious suite of paintings of a victorious battle to local ‘godfather' Leonardo Salimbini.

Salimbini is excited about the paintings - and boasting to his friend Cosimo Medici. Uccello, - and Salimbini’s major demo, Rocco - soon realises he’s out of his depth. He seeks help from his old master, but he’s jealous and won’t oblige. Salimbini and Rocco visit and are disappointed with progress, but Uccello buys some time, while Salibini is on honeymoon. 


They come back weeks later to find still nothing on the walls. Salimbini ‘suggests’ Uccello not leave until they have satisfactory progress, and leaves Rocco to ponder what would be ‘satisfactory progress’. After implicit threats, Rocco finds a way to put the tentative and theoretical Uccello ‘into the battle’ and leaves him adrenalised to paint the scene. This pays off, everyone is happy and Uccello feels unburdened.

Story Outline

I have drafted a story outline, using the short fiction form of:
  1. Orientation and Crisis
  2. Deepening Crisis
  3. Lull
  4. Final Crisis, 
  5. Turn

I also developed a script for a comic of four pages, although I later repaginated and expanded this.
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The three panels of Paolo Uccello's The Battle of San Romano: London (top), Florence (below), and Paris (bottom).

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Below - Paolo Uccello - details of the above paintings, and more
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  • Landing Page
  • Francis Bacon
  • Uccello
  • Vermeer
  • Tangled Tales
  • The Curse of the Yellow Book
    • Introduction (1912)
    • More Pages
    • A Found Object
    • The Intermediate Functionary
    • The Book and the Curse
    • Synopsis
    • Dead Trees >
      • Dead Trees cover gallery
      • Sample Issue
      • Contributors
      • The Library (complete)
    • New >
      • Chemistry
  • More
    • The Chimera Tree
    • Reviews
    • Reviews - More
    • Dead Trees Lucky Bag
    • The Eyes of the Artists >
      • A Different Story
      • From Dead Trees >
        • Home
        • Contact Me
  • Rare
    • Create / Destroy
    • Seen From Here
    • Dead Trees (from 'The Outsider') >
      • More on Dead Trees (from 'The Outsider')
    • For Films
    • More For Films
    • Realism
    • Links
  • Blog