Leonardo da Vinci's Sforza monument horse
Subtitle: the art and the engineering
By: edited by Diane Cole Ahl.
Contributors: Ahl, Diane Cole, 1949-
Publisher: Lehigh University Press; Associated University Presses; Lehigh Univ Pr
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Bethlehem [Pa.]; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. -- Congresses.; Equestrian statues -- Italy -- Milan -- Design -- Congresses.; Artists' preparatory studies -- Italy -- Milan -- Congresses.; Bronze sculpture -- Technique -- Congresses.; Horses in art -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Sforza monument horse.
Description: This volume is the first book-length study of Leonardo da Vinci's Sforza Monument Horse, which was designed in the 1480s as a colossal bronze equestrian monument to Francisco Sforza, the duke of Milan, but never executed.

At twenty-four feet in height, the Sforza Monument would have been the largest equestrian statue ever made. During his seventeen years in Milan, Leonardo researched the project intensively, making scores of drawings of horses and technological studies for its casting.

He prepared the clay model and molds for the great horse and invented a novel technique for its fabrication, but with the fall of Sforza from power in 1499, the bronze colussus, recognized in its own day as a symbol of the master's genius, was never cast. Illustrated by 87 black-and-white plates, this study reevaluates this great project 500 years after its genesis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of the symposium held Apr. 18-19, 1991, at Lafayette College and Lehigh University, and at the Dent Project Studio, Fogelsville, Pa.