LEONARDO da Vinci
(b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux, near Amboise)

Study of battles on horseback

1503-04
Pen and ink on paper
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

This sketch may be for the vast muralLeonardo painted in the Florentine Grand Council Chamber, but it also resembles a figure in the background of the Adoration of the Magi - it was not unusual for artists to recycle ideas.




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