Commissioned by the monks of San Donato a Scopeto and left unfinished after seven months when Leonardo departed for Milan. What survives is the underdrawing and brown underpaint of a composition of extraordinary ambition — a swirling crowd of some sixty figures, rearing horses and ruined architecture, orbiting a still centre.
Commissioned by the monks of San Donato a Scopeto and left unfinished after seven months when Leonardo departed for Milan. What survives is the underdrawing and brown underpaint of a composition of extraordinary ambition — a swirling crowd of some sixty figures, rearing horses and ruined architecture, orbiting a still centre.Read more
