Leonardo da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari Revisited

0502210 - ÚDU 2019 RIV PL eng J - Journal Article
Konečný, Lubomír
Leonardo da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari Revisited.
Artibus et historiae. Roč. 39, č. 78 (2018), s. 219-233. ISSN 0391-9064
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : Florence * Leonardo da Vinci * Agostino Matteo Vespucci * Piero Vettori
OECD category: Arts, Art history

The text providing the basis of this article has so far never been connected with Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari. It shows how a Florentine humanist scholar, Piero Vettori, understood this masterpiece in the middle of the sixteenth century, and from it threads develop leading to a better understanding of both its grandiose composition, and eventually, its inglorious end. It is suggested that Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari was conceived of and intended to be executed as a "Greek" painting in Florence, "the new Athens", and precisely for this very reason deteriorated so quickly.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0294152