But neither was "*#tlkling5"anything like this to be built in Milan! Leonardo's full-scale clay model was displayed in the city square for the marriage of Sforza's niece to Emperor Maximilian. It was then moved to the court of the Castello. Vasari and other visitors reported that there was "never a more beautiful thing or more superb." But when French soldiers invaded Milan they used it for
red pumps target practice. Meanwhile war had taken precedence over filial piety, and the bronze set aside for the horse was sold to Ludovico's ally the duke of Ferrara to be made into cannon. "About the horse I will say nothing," a resigned Leonardo wrote to Ludovico of his sixteen years' labor, "for I know the
pumps blue times."Leonardo knew the times well enough to change his loyalties and his patron as occasion required. When Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1440?-1518) of a rival Milanese family, passionate enemy of the Sforzas, conquered Milan in 1499, Leonardo eagerly accepted the commission for his tomb-another monumental equestrian statue. Leonardo's notebooks show plans for a life-size rider on a high pedestal containing the sarcophagus, along with brilliant new anatomical studies of the horse. He finally began work on the The Last Supper, painted for the refectory of the cloister of Dominican friars in Milan (1495-98), is commonly considered Leonardo's masterpiece. The contemporary writer Matteo Bandello (1480?-1562)
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Many a time I have seen Leonardo go early in the morning to work on
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to himself. I have also seen him, when the fancy took him, leave the Corte Vecchia when he was at work on the stupendous horse of clay, and go straight to the Grazie. There, climbing on the platform, he would take a brush and give a few touches to one of the figures: and then suddenly he would leave and go elsewhere.
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