This thesis is a comprehensive assessment of the life and work of the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (c. 1397- 1475). It employs an interdisciplinary methodology combining the examination of archival evidence of the artist’s personal, social and professional lives, the scientific examination of his artworks, the interpretation of his iconography based on the contexts his works were made for, and an approach to attributions based on documentary, stylistic and technical evidence rather than tradition. Unpublished documents presented here shed new light on Uccello’s family and early career, underlining the importance of his extended family as a point of contact between the artist and the networks of patronage in and around Florence. New scientific analyses of three works conducted for this study, including infrared reflectography, X-radiography and microsampling, reveal the sophistication of Uccello’s technique and help to clarify the chronology of his works. New interpretations of Uccello’s works proposed here, relating in particular to his use of perspective, address the significance of their contexts, highlighting the subtlety and specificity of Uccello’s imagery. / The catalogue raisonne is the most extensive survey of works attributed to Uccello to date, and presents unpublished documents for the provenances of two works attributed to Uccello. Contrary to the image of Uccello as an isolated and eccentric figure commonly encountered in the art historical literature since Vasari’s sixteenth-century biography of the artist, Uccello emerges from a detailed study of the documentary and physical evidence as an artist of his time, involved in Florentine society, religion and commerce, and an innovative artist, a creator of unforgettable images who was admired by his peers and subsequent generations of artists, ensuring his place as one of the protagonists in the field of early Renaissance art.

Doctor of Philosophy / This thesis analyses language shift in a Sicilian-Australian family, from the parents' use of three languages: Sicilian, Italian and English, to the children's almost exclusive use of English.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-369).

Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2004.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-257). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed November 14, 2007). Advisor: Gustav Medicus. Keywords: Carpaccio; Vittore Carpaccio; Hunting on the Lagoon; Two Venetian Ladies; Social Studies, Venice; Renaissance, Venice; Material Culture, Venice; Gender Studies, Venice; Furniture, Venice; Domestic, Venice; Women's Fashion, Venice; Letter Rack; Venetian Soceity. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-75).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1898. / Bibliography: 1 p. following p. 33.

Thesis (Revise). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-348).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1998. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-311).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2010. / "Graduate Program in Italian." Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-160).