Leonardo design was intended to decorate a wall in the Sala del Gran Consiglio (Great Council Hall) of Palazzo della Signoria in Florence - together with a facing fresco by Michelangelo on the Battle of Cascina. Gerard Edelinck's print depicts the Battle of the Standard, the central section of an ambitious mural project commissioned to Leonardo to commemorate the Florentine victory over the Milanese army during the Battle of Anghiari in 1440. Three men riding raging war-horses engaged in a ferocious conflict for possession of the standard that would mark the battle's victor.
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