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LEONARDO da Vinci: Study of horses for the Battle of Anghiari

🖼 Study of horses for the Battle of Anghiari, 1503-04
Traces of black and red chalk, pen and ink, wash on paper
196 × 308 cm
Windsor, United Kingdom

Dynamic sketches capture horses in violent motion, their muscular forms rendered with anatomical precision through rapid charcoal strokes. Leonardo's preparatory studies for the Battle of Anghiari reveal his obsessive investigation of animal anatomy and kinetic energy, foundational to Renaissance understanding of movement.

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E. H. Gombrich
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