Tuscan · 2026

“Anghiari”

The hill town of Anghiari in the Valtiberina — clustered ochre houses crowning the ridge, a cypress-lined road climbing toward them under a bright Tuscan sky.

Details

TitleAnghiari

PlaceAnghiari, Valtiberina, Tuscany

Year2026

CategoryTuscan

Dimensions14.8 × 21 cm (A5)

TechniqueInk and Watercolor on Clairefontaine paper

Palette of the work

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The subject

Anghiari, above the Valley

Anghiari is a steep medieval town in the upper Tiber valley of eastern Tuscany, its houses tumbling down the hillside toward a long straight road and a famous battlefield.

The old town is a knot of stone lanes and walls on a spur above the Valtiberina. Below it, on 29 June 1440, Florence defeated Milan at the Battle of Anghiari — the subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s lost fresco for the Palazzo Vecchio, the most celebrated painting that no longer exists.

I drew the town from the plain, the die-straight road running toward it and the houses climbing the hill above — the view that still startles you on the approach.

Warm stone, a few cypresses, the wide valley light: a classic Tuscan sketchbook page.

Where: Valtiberina, Tuscany
On: a hillside spur
Battle: 29 June 1440
Painted by: Leonardo (lost)
One of: Italy’s borghi più belli

The hill town of Anghiari above the Tiber valley — Anghiari on its spur above the Valtiberina — houses climbing the hill.Photo: TeKappa — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The great stone town wall of Anghiari above the plain — The walls of Anghiari, and the plain below where the battle was fought.Photo: blogmasterpg — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A whole town piled on one hill, and a straight road aimed at it like an arrow — that is Anghiari.

Ink carries the climbing roofs and towers; the colour is kept light — ochre, a little green, a soft blue sky.

History sits lightly on it now, but it is there, down on the quiet plain below the walls.