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It was intended to be the largest equestrian statue in the world, a monument to the duke's father Francesco Sforza. Seventy tons of bronze were collected by Ludovico for casting the statue, which approached 8 metres (26 ft) in height, [3] dwarfing earlier horse monuments by Donatello and by Leonardo's former master , Verrocchio .
The Sforza monument. In the mid-1480s Ludovico Sforza, the ruler of Milan, engaged Leonardo to make a bronze equestrian monument to his father Francesco. For several years little work was carried out other than the design drawings, but from 1490 Leonardo studied the form of the horse intensively, in both casual and formal poses and with ...
Sep 14, 1999 · The completed statue is apparently not quite what Leonardo had envisoned. For instance, it is missing its rider, the Milanese duke Francesco Sforza, to whom it was dedicated.
Town:Nagoya. Year of creation:1989. Rider (s):Francesco Sforza. Sculptor (s):Tanaka a.o. Hidemichi. Description: Ludovico of Milan commanded Leonardo da Vinci, the grand master of the Italian Renaissance, to create the world’s largest statue, depicting General Francesco Sforza mounted on horseback.
Feb 24, 2014 · A statue that was meant to pay homage to a destroyed 15th-century work by Leonardo da Vinci has been relegated to a racetrack in Milan, far from the public eye. ... Francesco Sforza. Had French ...
Leonardo's Horse. The monument in Piazza della Libertà was inspired by Leonardo’s unfinished project for a colossal statue in honour of Francesco Sforza, on the creation of which Leonardo...
Cavallo. CountryItaly. Town:Milan. Year of creation:1999. Rider (s):Cavallo. Sculptor (s):Leonardo da Vinci. Description: In 1482, Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, challenged Leonardo Da Vinci to build the largest equestrian statue the world had ever seen in honor of his father, Francesco.
