http://www.fujibi.or.jp/anghiari.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nichibi/weekly/2015/0628/index.html
http://www.lostleonardodavinci.com/
To this day, The Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci remains as shrouded in enigma as it is with intrigue. One of the largest mural project he ever undertook, it is ranked among the most ambitious decorative works in the history of Italian Renaissance art. What is widely known is that da Vinci and Michelangelo had been concurrently commissioned in 1504, the former to dpict a battle scene from the famous military clash that took place in Tuscany in 1440, the latter to paint another battle in Cascina that occurred in 1364. The two works were to adorn opposite walls of the Salone dei Cinquecento ( Hall of the Five Hundered ) in the Palazzo Vecchio Florence.
Neither mural, however, was ever completed - and only tantalizing hints of what may have been are left for us to marvel at, puzzle over and debate. For instance, the only clue that still exists of what The Battle of Cascina that Michelangelo had envisaged for the Hall is a full-scale sketch of his original compositon. And while da Vinci's work had progressed beyond the sketching phase, it was still only partially finished and was eventually painted over in the 1560s by Giorgio Vasari.
Even so The Battle of Anghiari - which has been hailed for its powerful portrayal of the fury and grace of horseback men at war - continued to exert immense influence on generations of artists to come.
レオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチの未完の大壁画計画≪アンギアーリの戦い≫は、今も多くの謎と痕跡を残しています。
同壁画はイタリア・ルネサンス美術の歴史の中でも、最も野心的な装飾計画のひとつとされています。
シニョリーア宮殿（現パラッツォ・ヴェッキオ）を舞台にしたレオナルドとミケランジェロが戦闘画において競演したエピソードは大変有名ですが、レオナルドの壁画と大広間に描かれるはずだった≪カッシナの戦い≫についてもミケランジェロの原寸大下絵に基づく模写によって知ることができるのみで、その計画の全貌はいまだに明らかにされていません。
レオナルドはこの壁画を完成させることができませんでしたが、部分的に描かれた壁画はその後、半世紀以上のあいだ人々の見るところとなりました。
しかしその壁画は、最終的に１５６０年代にジョルジョ・ヴァザーリの新たな壁画装飾によって覆われてしまいました。
それでもレオナルドの作品は、激烈な戦闘場面を描く絵画表現の新しい基準を確立し、その後に続く世代の芸術家たちに大きな影響を与えることとなったのです。
