These remain fundamental visual evidence of Leonardo's grand scheme. Only few extant autograph sketches and drawings document Leonardo's design, while the battle composition is preserved in later copies such as the Rubens drawing now at the Louvre from which Edelinck's print is derived and the Ruccellai drawing reproduced in a plate in the Etruria Pittrice (1791-95).

Over the turn of few years Leonardo's battle was so deteriorated that about 1563 Vasari covered the walls with a monumental cycle of battle scene from Florentine history.

But as described by Vasari, the wax-based pigments could not sustain the heat and the fresco 'began to drip, in such a way, that very quickly, Leonardo abandoned it'. To quicken the drying time of the completed sections, Leonardo installed braziers under the fresco. This involved a ground of heated beeswax to which oil pigments were applied. Three men riding raging war-horses engaged in a ferocious conflict for. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemys country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good. Inspired by the Roman method of encaustic painting. Leonardo began executing the composition adopting an experimental technique that proved to be disastrous. The only talent show/open mic in LA that has giveaways or cash prizes every event. Michelangelo abandoned the project after the completion of his cartoon. Battle Of The Arts, Los Angeles, California. Prior to their execution Leonardo and Michelangelo's two full-scale preparatory cartoons were exhibited and much admired by the younger generation of artists and acclaimed by Benvenuto Cellini 'school for the world' ( scuola del mondo). 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.

The art of battle