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Paolo Uccello, an Uncommon card
Paolo Uccello, born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian Renaissance painter and mathematician from Florence who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 34,000
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Paolo Uccello quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Paolo Uccello card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Uccello used perspective to create a feeling of depth in his ______.
Answer
paintings. Uccello used perspective to create a feeling of depth in his paintings. From the Paolo Uccello article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
His best known works are the three paintings representing the battle of San Romano, which were wrongly entitled the Battle of Sant'Egidio of ____ for a long period of time.
Answer
1410s. His best known works are the three paintings representing the battle of San Romano, which were wrongly entitled the Battle of Sant'Egidio of 1416 for a long period of time. From the Paolo Uccello article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In his book Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point.
- Uccello used perspective to create a feeling of depth in his paintings.
- His best known works are the three paintings representing the battle of San Romano, which were wrongly entitled the Battle of Sant'Egidio of 1416 for a long period of time.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Paolo Uccello article was read about 34,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Paolo Uccello (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Florentine School, Unknown Master, Italian (active late 15th century), généralement attri, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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