# Night assault on a city [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STRADANUS, Johannes]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, on two sheets of blue paper overlaid, 260 x 423 mm ## Commentary This drawing depicts a night assault on a city; soldiers, some on horseback, arriving with weapons, canons and ammunition in the foreground, a fortified city beyond. The subject of the drawing is the capture of the fortifications of Siena in a night assault by the Florentine forces under the Marquis of Marignano. It corresponds to a fresco painted by Vasari in the Sala Grande in the Palazzo Vecchio in 1570. The finished work does not correspond with the drawing, and the latter must be a rejected idea for the work. The study is attributed to one of Vasari's assistants and collaborators who worked in his studio. Johannes Stradanus and Jacopo Zucchi are the possible authors of the drawing. ## Related artworks - [An Alchemist's Laboratory \(detail\)]() - [An Alchemist's Laboratory \(detail\)]() - [An Alchemist's Laboratory]() - [Esther Receiving the Crown from Ahasuerus]() - [Night assault on a city \(detail\)]() - [Reeling of the Silk]() - [Silkworm Farm \(1\)]() - [Silkworm Farm \(2\)]() - [Vanity, Modesty and Death]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()