"Gran Cavallo"

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

~William Shakespeare, Henry V

This is the Gran Cavallo, Leonardo da Vinci's horse. Realized only on paper, da Vinci never had the opportunity to see it completed. In 1999, the horse was created in Milan and then in the United States. It stands 24 feet tall. This is the "American" horse.