This painting comes from a set of three paintings, by florentine artist Paolo Ucello, all three paintings show events from the Battle of San Romano. The Battle of San Romano was fought in June 1432, and it was a Battle between Florence and Sienna, it lasted for about 6/7 hours of heavy cavalry fighting, and even though the results favor the Florentines, the Sienese considered it a victory. This painting shows some linear perspective which was a big deal for that time period, it was painted using Egg tempera. In this time period, popular artworks had to meet a certain criteria, it had to be religious, painted realistically, go back to the Roman or Greek times, or be painted using perspective, and this painting was not only realistically painted, but it used perspective, which then meant that it met the criteria for art work.
"The Battle of San Romano." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 21 Sept. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_San_Romano>.
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