Shop art print and framed art Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci

The Battle of Anghiari is a mural painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1504 and 1506 on the east wall of the Great Council Chamber (now the Chamber of the Five Hundred) in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. Leonardo da Vinci left Florence in 1506, leaving the work unfinished. For most commentators, Leonardo had used a new process for this work, encaustic, and his work was not preserved, although artists admired his cartoons, which were still visible in the early 17th century. Its counterpart, Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina, also remained unfinished. In 1563, Vasari, who was in charge of renovating the Palazzo Vecchio, painted new battle scenes on the walls of the Hall of the Five Hundred. Leonardo da Vinci left several preparatory studies, but none of them show the entire scene. The central part, the Struggle for the Standard, is best known from copies. Hypothetical reconstructions of the work have occupied art historians since the early twentieth century. One historian has put forward the hypothesis that Vasari may have kept Leonardo's work behind a brick wall separated from the previous wall by a gap. Experts from Florence's Conservation of Historic Works and Monuments department categorically rejected this speculation in October 2020. Explorations carried out in 2012 by drilling into Vasari's work had produced no conclusive results. Peter the Unfortunate, son of Lorenzo de' Medici, was expelled from Florence on 9 November 1494. The Medici had replaced the old republican [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the italian renaissance style.

 

« Battle of Anghiari » is kept at Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.

 

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