The Hunt in the Forest

The Hunt in the Forest (also known as The Hunt by Night or simply The Hunt) is a painting by the Italian artist Paolo Uccello, made around 1470. It is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. The painting is an example of linear perspective in Renaissance art, a mathematical system developed to create the appearance of depth on a flat surface. To do this, Uccello created a grid on the panel and diminished the scale of the figures, animals, and objects in relation to a central vanishing point. The panel was probably part of a cassone, a painted chest associated with marriage in the Italian Renaissance. It was Uccello's last known work before his death in 1475.