PAOLO UCCELLO (June 15; 1397 - December 10; 1475); nickname of Paolo di Dono; or Paolo Doni; Italian painter and mosaicist; He worked in the transition period from the late Gothic to the early Renaissance; with an intense personal search for prospective representation. The portrait is enclosed in a frame decorated with caryatids holding the tools of art and an allegory of painting. Colored illustration on a 16th century xylographic basis; from the treaty 'Le Vite de' the most outstanding painters; sculptors and architects' by Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 - 27 June 1574); second enlarged and revised edition; Giunti; Florence 1568