Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
The Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood is a fresco by Paolo Uccello, commissioned in 1436 for Florence Cathedral. The fresco is an important example of art commemorating a soldier-for-hire who fought in the Italian peninsula. Hawkwood had a long military career and a complicated relationship with Florence. The politics of the commissioning and recommissioning of the fresco have been...