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In about 1475, Federico da Montefeltro conceived the project of decorating a long bench in front of the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino with 72 panels of carved stone. The Duke clearly intended the iconography as a tribute to the valor of the warrior-prince, a role he personified to a consummate degree. Most of the panels are effectively devoted to military themes.
Francesco di Giorgio helped define the concept of the frieze. Many panels illustrate machines and systems taken from the drawings of the Sienese artist-engineer. Francesco thus imprinted the stamp of the Sienese engineering tradition on the facade of one of the most outstanding monuments of the Renaissance.
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Warfare