The rout of san Romano, by Paolo Uccello, showing a cavaly victory of the florentines over he Science in 1432, and Sunday at the grande jatte painted by Georges seurat in 1884, have much in common, though they belong to ifferent countries and epochs. Both Uccello and seurat were men of scientific intellect: Uccello was devoted to the study of perspective, seurat to the science of related colours. Their pictures are attempts to solve the problems which interested them, and demand in each case that natural fact should be organized into a system of forms. Thus the horses in the battle scene and the French bourgeois are conventionalized.
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