I found Uccello's The Hunt in the Forest utterly thrilling irl. There's so much movement in it from the chaos of the hounds, and the hunters running and shouting. There's a sense of foreboding, or at least mystery, in amongst the dark trees off in the distance. And the colours! It's over five hundred years old but the hunters' jackets glow like rubies and the hounds are pale and luminous against the forest green, like ghost dogs. You stand in front of it and your heart thumps in your chest as if you were standing on the edge of that clearing, just feet away from all the noise and mayhem.
Also, we know the painting has almost magical powers to help fictional Oxford detectives solve crimes, though said detectives do have to sit squashed up against each other on a bench in order to get their inspiration ;-)
If you're ever in Oxford, go and see it (the painting that is, not the bench - tragically, when I visited, there was no bench).
"Trois Veilleuses de Nuit" installation de "Statues-Menhirs" en grès (circa 3300-2200 avant J.-C.) devant "Scène de Chasse le Jour du Jugement Dernier" (détails) de Nikita Kravtsov et Camille Sagnes Kravtsova (circadiens 2023) - réinterprétation de "La Chasse de Nuit" de Paolo Uccello (1397-1475) composée de multiples fragments de canevas traditionnels et de tapisseries populaires collectés à travers l’Europe - au Musée Fenaille de Rodez, août 2023.
Mr the reshaper, what do you do when you're sick? or can u just magic such things away
"Sorry to disappoint, Uccello, but I do indeed just 'magic such things away'. I don't have the time or desire to spend my nights feeling sick, I'm sure you understand."
^ What he will not tell you is that when he was young and inexperienced, he would spend his time ill lamenting and complaining. They liked to lounge around and tell people to do things for them quite dramatically.