Paolo Uccello

Paolo Uccello, painter for the famous Renaissance Italy family the Medicis, was the father of the art of the perspective. In paintings such as "The Battle of San Romano" (circa 1450), his use of perspective and vanishing point created fundamental changes in the way art depicts spatial relations. See also "The Hunt" (c. 1460), in which he strives to make the running hounds three dimensional, knowing that the spatial aspect was critical to the viewer's enjoyment.