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Specialty Museum Attractions In Anghiari

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Specialty Museum Attractions In Anghiari

  • 1. Anghiari Anghiari
    The Battle of Anghiari is a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci, at times referred to as The Lost Leonardo, which some commentators believe to be still hidden beneath one of the later frescoes in the Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Its central scene depicted four men riding raging war horses engaged in a battle for possession of a standard, at the Battle of Anghiari in 1440. Many preparatory studies by Leonardo still exist. The composition of the central section is best known through a drawing by Peter Paul Rubens in the Louvre, Paris. This work, dating from 1603 and known as The Battle of the Standard, was based on an engraving of 1553 by Lorenzo Zacchia, which was taken from the painting itself or possibly derived from a cartoon by Leonardo. Rubens succeeded in po...
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