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LEONARDO da Vinci: Study sheet with horses

🖼 Study sheet with horses, 1513-15
Pen, ink, black chalk on paper
298 × 212 cm
Windsor, United Kingdom

Rapid pen strokes capture horses in dynamic motion, their musculature rendered with anatomical precision across the sheet. Leonardo's obsessive study of animal locomotion reveals Renaissance mastery of form and his scientific approach to art.

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