Study for the 'Trivulzio Monument' mb-code UKD506AINP Great Suffolk Street

Great Suffolk Street

View showing an audience watching a man balancing on one leg on a moving horse

Interior elevation of Trinity Hall

With inset detailed figures of the head and feet

8th November 1968

Study for the 'Trivulzio Monument' mb-code UKD506AINP Great Suffolk StreetStudy for the 'Trivulzio Monument', c1508 (1954). In 1508 Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, a Milanese aristocrat and military commander and governor of the city, commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to sculpt an equestrian statue for his tomb. Leonardo produced designs for the statue but it was never realised. Found in the collection of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Windsor. A print from Leonardo da Vinci by Ludwig H Heydenreich. (London, 1954).