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LEONARDO da Vinci: Assault chariot with scythes

🖼 Assault chariot with scythes, c. 1485
Silverpoint, pen and ink on paper
210 × 292 cm
Turin, Italy

Mechanical violence rendered in precise pen strokes: a wheeled chariot bristles with rotating scythes, its geometry brutal and functional. Leonardo's war machine design reveals Renaissance fascination with engineering weaponry, blending artistic mastery with military innovation during Italy's turbulent power struggles.

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E. H. Gombrich
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