Legenda – obraz – apokryf. Przesłania Paola Uccella w utworach Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego i Olgi Tokarczuk

In The Legend of the Converted Hermit by Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski and The Journey of the People of the Book by Olga Tokarczuk we observe an interesting interpretation of some paintings by a famous Italian artist Paollo Ucello. It turns out that these paintings contain hidden stories and messages, which do not fit into the “canon”. The present article is an attempt to puzzle out why exactly Ucello (and his paintings) becomes a character of these works, what is hidden behind the silence of the paintings, and how the two Polish writers created a story out of this.