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LEONARDO da Vinci: Galloping Rider and other figures

🖼 Galloping Rider and other figures, 1503-04
Red chalk on paper
168 × 240 cm
Windsor, United Kingdom

Energetic pen strokes capture a mounted soldier in dynamic motion, surrounded by study sketches of armor and anatomical details. Leonardo's obsessive exploration of movement and warfare mechanics reveals Renaissance mastery of observation, influencing military engineering and artistic anatomy for centuries.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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