Bust, Chateau du Clos Luce, Amboise

Condottiere, bronze bust with black patina, by Etienne Rayssac and the Rossini foundry, after drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, British Museum collection, in the Architect gallery, in Les Galeries Leonard de Vinci Peintre et Architecte, a new exhibition space in the grounds of the Chateau du Clos Luce, a manor house built 1468-71, designed in Renaissance style by Albert Dufet, in Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France. Originally a stronghold of the Chateau d'Amboise, it later became a royal summer residence and Francois I offered its use to Leonardo da Vinci, who lived here 1517-19. The chateau is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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