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UBERTINI, FRANCESCO, called Bacchiacca, born in Florence, March 1, 1494, died there, Oct. 5, 1557. Florentine school; called after his father, Francesco d' Ubertino; family name, Verdi. History painter, pupil of Pietro Perugino and of Francia Bigio; further developed under the influence of Andrea del Sarto; visited Rome, probably after 1524; excelled in pictures with numerous small figures. Works: Baptism of Christ, Berlin Museum; The Three Pretenders to the Throne, Dresden Gallery.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 454.

UCCELLI or UCCELLO, PAOLO, born in Florence in 1396-97, died there, Dec. 11, 1475. Florentine school; real name Paolo Doni or di Dono, but called Uccello from his fondness for painting birds. Apprentice of Lorenzo Ghiberti the sculptor, who began his career as a painter. Paolo devoted himself to the study of perspective with passionate fervour, and like Mantegna, whom he knew at Padua, pushed its use to the verge of excess. He drew with a hardness of line which shows familiarity with sculpture, but his studies are corrected by the study of nature; and though his works show the crudeness of early art, they had a very great influence upon his contemporaries and successors. In his frescos in S. Maria Novella, Florence, principally subjects from Genesis, he imitated bas-relief by the use of dead colour and by the distribution of the scenes into distinct parts with in given spaces. Of easel pictures by him there remain three out of four panels representing battle scenes one in the Louvre, one in the Uffizi, Florence, and one in the National Gallery, London; the last, The Battle of St. Egidio. In the Louvre is also a portrait group, and in the Duomo, Florence, a portrait of the English Condottiere, Sir John Hawkwood, painted about 1436. The pictures attributed to Uccelli in the Munich and Prato Galleries are not genuine.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 283; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iii. 87; ed. Mil., ii. 203; Burckhardt, 494, 536, 576, 622; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Gaye, Carteggio, i. 146.

UCHTERVELT. See Ochtervelt.

UDEN, LUCAS VAN, born in Antwerp, Oct. 18, 1595, died there, Nov. 4, 1672. Flemish school; landscape painter, son and probably pupil of Artus van Uden (master of Antwerp guild in 1587, died in 1627-28); developed under the influence of Rubens, in whose pictures, as well as in those of Teniers, he often painted the backgrounds, while both masters supplied his landscapes with figures. Master of the guild in 1626-27. Van Dyck painted his portrait. Works: Mountainous Landscape, Rocky do. with Hebe and Jupiter's Eagle (figures by Jordaens), Madrid Museum; Rape of Proserpine, Ceres and Cyane, Louvre; Landscape in picture by Teniers, Brussels Museum; View of St. Bernard's Abbey, Mill, Landscape with Figures, Antwerp Museum; Five Female Figures in a Landscape, Apollo, Marsyas and Midas, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Castle on High Rock, Brunswick Gallery; Hilly Landscape (figures by Teniers the elder), Berlin Museum; Woodland Scene (with figures by Teniers), Christiania Gallery; Landscape with River (1656), two Landscapes with figures by Teniers, one with figures by Pieter Bout, five others, Dresden Gallery; Landscape at Sunset, Feast of the Gods before a Grotto, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Landscape with figures by Teniers, two others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Banquet of the Gods, Christ on Lake of Tiberias, Landscapes (4), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; others in Cassel, Darmstadt, Frankfort (2), Schleissheim, and Weimar