This painting’s restorer Ann Massing argued that it is heraldic rather than realistic by noting that it features only male animals. This painting, which appears on the cover of the most recent Penguin Classics edition of Alberti’s On Painting, likely inspired the composition of the first panel of Botticelli’s Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (“noss-TAH-joe dell-yee oh-NEST-ee”). At the bottom of this painting, the color of a small pond filled with cattails matches the blue doublet of a “hornblower” in rear-facing contrapposto. Reins with crescent motifs echo the cloud-covered moon symbolizing Diana at the apex of this spalliera painting, which was painted over a grid to regularly space its pruned oak trees. Fallen logs litter the foreground in this painting housed in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. Numerous men and hounds charge into this painting’s central vanishing point in pursuit of roebucks. For 10 points, name this final painting by Paolo Uccello ■END■
ANSWER: The Hunt in the Forest [or The Hunt by Night; or Caccia notturna; prompt on The Hunt or La Caccia]
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