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The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance

The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance

Jones, Jonathan

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Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryIndividual Artists

ISBN10: 0307741788
ISBN13: 9780307741783
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Aug 13 2013
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.78 Width: 4.72 Depth: 8.45
Language: English

From one of Britain's most respected art historians, art critic of The Guardian--the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition.

In 1504, the informal rivalry between two of the most celebrated artists in Florence became a direct contest. Michelangelo was commissioned to paint a scene from the ancient battle of Cascina on a wall of the Palazzo Vecchio--in the same room where Leonardo da Vinci had already been commissioned to paint a scene from another great Florentine victory, the battle of Anghiari. As the paintings progressed, Michelangelo set out to prove that his work, not Leonardo's, embodied the future of art--but in fact, the influence of both would become visible in the works of subsequent generations of artists. The Lost Battles is a riveting look at one of history's most resonant exchanges of ideas and offers a whole new understanding of an age and those at its center.

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