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The Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood is a fresco by Paolo Uccello, commemorating English condottiero John Hawkwood, commissioned in 1436 for the Florence Cathedral |
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The fresco is an important example of art commemorating a soldier-for-hire in the Italian peninsula and is a seminal work in the development of perspective |
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The politics of the commissioning and recommissioning of the fresco have been analyzed and debated by historians |
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Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood |
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