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LEONARDO da Vinci: Sketch for the Royal Palace of Romorantin

🖼 Sketch for the Royal Palace of Romorantin, 1517-19
Pencil drawing
Windsor, United Kingdom

Architectural lines flow across the page in Leonardo's visionary sketch, depicting an ambitious palace complex with geometric precision and interconnected courtyards. This unrealized design for French royalty reveals Renaissance ambitions to merge art, engineering, and power into ideal urban form.

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