Studies for the Sforza Monument Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Sunday 3rd December 1989

Sunday 3rd December 1989

Chairman of the Library Committee'

View of the Castle Tavern

Officinalia

'The Blackwall Railway Terminus and Brunswick Pier'

Studies for the Sforza Monument Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Sunday 3rd December 1989Studies for the Sforza Monument, c1488 1493 (1954). Study for the great bronze equestrian statue of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, commissioned by his son and successor, Ludovico. 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 Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Windsor. A