The view of the `armoured car` with its roof off showing its mechanism is labelled: `the way the car is arranged within - eight men operate it, and the same men turn the car and pursue the enemy`. ![]() Starting from the chariot in the upper part of the drawing they read as follows: `when this travels through your men, you will wish to raise the shafts of the scythes, so that you will not injure anyone on your side`. This drawing shows that Leonardo was indeed willing to turn his creative genius to warlike ends, yet in common with almost all of his inventions these fearsome but impracticable machines were never built. In a famous letter from the early 1480s Leonardo offered his services to the Duke as military engineer, architect, sculptor and painter the order in which he lists his achievements showing a shrewd understanding of the martial concerns of his future patron. ![]() Curator's comments The present drawing dates from the mid-1480s during the artist`s first period in Milan at the court of Duke Ludovico Sforza.
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