Study for the casting of the Sforza Monument Size:XS: 30 x 20cm Surrounding the home are lawns

Surrounding the home are lawns

1954 Mercedes W196

showing the monument to John Speed on the far left

Plate 34 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever

Study for the casting of the Sforza Monument Size:XS: 30 x 20cm Surrounding the home are lawnsStudy for the casting of the Sforza Monument, c1493 (1954). In the 1480s Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce a great bronze equestrian statue of his father and predecessor, Francesco. Leonardo created a life sized clay model of the statue, but it was never completed as in 1494 Ludovico used the 70 tons of bronze set aside for it to manufacture cannon to fight the invading French. Found in the collection of the