Mary McCarthy’s pretty loyal to Vasari’s portrayal of Paolo Uccello. She describes him as a solitary character incredibly focused on work; to the point that he would just shut himself away to deal with his long term perspective project. Vasari speaks similarly of Uccello, even arguing that Uccello spentso much time on his project that he “nothing but waste his time, exhaust his powers, fill his mind with difficulties” McCarthy often quotes Vasari when describing the life of Uccello. And focuses on many of the recurring themes in his work, especially his withdrawal from social life and his interest in birds and animals, and architecture, over portrait drawing. The character who is most engaged in the text of Vasari would have to be Uccello,
