An Angel (detail)
by UCCELLO, Paolo, Fresco
Uccello painted stories from the lives of Hermit Saints in the upper loggia of the cloister of San Miniato al Monte. A feeling of abstraction pervades these scenes, today no more than a group of fragments of faded and almost undecipherable images, in which we can make out a few architectural structures shown in accurate perspective and some monks laid out according to geometric patterns.
The picture shows a fragment representing an angel.