The Decisive Attack of Micheletto Attendolo at San Romano

Paolo Uccello's depiction of the Battle of San Romano in the Louvre panel, painted around 1435, commemorates the 1432 Florentine victory over Siena. This panel shows the decisive attack led by Micheletto Attendolo and forms part of a celebrated triptych, the other panels now in the Uffizi and the National Gallery, London. Paolo Uccello was among the most theoretically ambitious painters of fifteenth-century Florence, whose fascination with perspective led him to develop extraordinarily complex spatial constructions that astonished his contemporaries.

The battle scene is composed with Uccello's characteristic obsession with perspective, with fallen lances and foreshortened figures creating a geometric grid of recession that transforms military chaos into ordered visual design.