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Excerpt from Reproductions in Facsimile of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House
In the course of his career Leonardo planned two equestrian statues, of which the earlier and more famous was designed for the monument of Francesco Sfor'za, Duke of Milan. Leonardo approached, the task in his usual attitude of mind, in which he conciliated the two extremes of speculative boldness and critical minuteness.' Having investigated afresh the anatomy of the horse and the laws and limits of its motion, he eventually produced a model; but it was never cast, and when a few years later it perished, all certainty as to the intended form of the scheme perished with it. For the later monument, to Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, an elaborate estimate exists in the handwriting of Leonardo. The first item on the list is 'a courser, as large as life, with the rider;' but this scheme of the master's decline seems never to have been advanced beyond the stage of project and experhnent.
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