LA SUA ANIMA. BATTAGLIA DI ANGHIARI, DE LEONARDO DA VINCI
LA SUA ANIMA. LEONARDO DA VINCIʼS BATTLE OF ANGHIARI

Summary/Abstract: At the begining of the 16th century anima designated at the same time the new Florentine republic and the grand town council hall inside its town palace. As Leonardo da Vinci was asked to illustrate exactly in this hall the victory of Florence at Anghiari in 1440 on the Duke of Milano´s army, he decided to do it by representing the concepts of anima and of libertas, the main virtue of the republic. Much of his previous work on topography, kinetics, anatomy of the human expression, the movement of horses as well as the art of war, comes back in his preparation for this work and more than ever his reflection was going in experiments in ”prospettiva composta” and the so-called ”geometry of color”, meaning the perspective realized through colors and sfumatura effects. In the center of an open space overwhelmed by the battle we see the wild confrontation of the two captains on the Milanese banner (La Battaglia dello Stendardo): this is the anima of the image, and this image is the anima of a new visuality.

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