Even though Da Vinci's placed so much importance and time into his creation of the Sforza monument horse, he never had an intended location for it. Due to the immensity of the statue and the political message it would send, he chose to place it in the Corte Vecchia, the Castello Sforzesco (Hanson, 2012). There, its colossal height would represent and directly point to the power of the Sforza family. The clay model of the horse stood there until 1499 when the French army destroyed by using it as target practice (Grierson, 1959).

At the completion of the Colleoni equestrian monument in 1496, it was placed in front of the San Giovanni e Paolo church. Today, the statue with realistic dimensions and one suspended horse leg still stands as a great feat of the combination of art and engineering. However, this was not its intended location. In his will, Bartolomeo Colleoni stated that his statue should stand in front of the Piazza San Marco (Hanson, 2012).