The Uffizi Gallery said today that, according to a report presented by a group of historians, Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci did not paint the fresco of “The battle of Anghiari” on the walls of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

The authors of this study are in charge of analyzing the decoration of the Hall of the Five Hundred of the Palazzo Vecchio, seat of the Florentine town hall, where Leonardo should have made this fresco in 1503 Y, with your report, showed that the artist stopped his work on the sketches or cartoons that he prepared in the nearby convent of San María Novella due to problems with the wall.

“Where is the battle? What did Leonardo do in the Big Room? These studies indicate that Leonardo never painted it. We lose a battle but we win a scientific consensus”, indicated one of the members of this study group, Francesca Fiorani, from the University of Virginia.

As reported by the Efe news agency, For these experts, the mural commissioned from Da Vinci remained only a series of sketches, although for years it has been believed that the grandiose mural was under the layers of paint in a fresco made by Giorgio Vasari decades later., in 1565.