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‘Mushrooms’ in an early renaissance painting: ‘Uccello's The Hunt in the Forest’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2006

ELIO SCHAECHTER
ELIO SCHAECHTER
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6345 Rockhurst Drive, San Diego CA 92120 USA. E-mail mschaech@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
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Abstract

An early Renaissance painting of a hunt by Paolo Uccello depicts a large number of objects most likely to be mushrooms on a forest floor. The putative mushrooms do not suggest any strong symbolism and the hunters and their entourage do not appear to pay any attention to them.

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Original Article
Information
Mycologist , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , November 2005 , pp. 150 - 151
Copyright
2005 The British Mycological Society

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