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Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance
artist and engineer, known for
paintings like “The Last Supper” and
“Mona Lisa,” and for inventions like a
flying machine. He was a Renaissance painter,
sculptor, architect, inventor,
engineer and draftsman - the epitome of
a true Renaissance man. Gifted with a
curious mind and a brilliant intellect, da
Vinci studied the laws of science and nature,
which greatly informed his work. His
drawings, paintings and other works have
influenced countless artists and engineers
over the centuries.
The Battle of Anghiari is a lost painting
by Leonardo da Vinci at times referred
to as, “The Lost Leonardo”, which some
commentators believe to be still hidden
beneath later frescoes in the Hall of Five
Hundred (Salone dei Cinquecento) in the
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
Its central scene depicted three men riding
raging war-horses engaged in a battle for
military possession of a standard. Sometime around
October 1503, Leonardo was commissioned
to paint the mural of The Battle of Anghiari,
for the Sala del Gran Consiglio, the recently
rebuilt Great Council Hall of the Palazzo
Vecchio in Florence, during the first years of
the city’s republican government.
“The first time I saw an original work of
art by Leonardo da Vinci was a field trip
to London with my first Art School from
Liverpool – Laird School of Art – 1960
(just before I went onto Liverpool College
of Art).
It was called the Leonardo Cartoon and
it was only just acquired at the National
Gallery in London in 1960 – The Virgin and
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