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  The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance (Hardback) By (author) Jonathan Jones

  

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  Short Description for The Lost BattlesFrom one of Britain's most acclaimed art historians, art critic of "The Guardian"--the galvanizing story of the defining moment of the Renaissance: the two greatest artists of their time, commissioned by different people, but working side by side in the same room, a competition out of which would arise the new idea of artistic "genius." In this rich, fascinating book, published in England to great...
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  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Published: 23 October 2012
  • Format: Hardback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Art History: Renaissance | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
  • ISBN 13: 9780307594754 ISBN 10: 0307594750

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• From one of Britain's most acclaimed art historians, art critic of "The Guardian"--the galvanizing story of the defining moment of the Renaissance: the two greatest artists of their time, commissioned by different people, but working side by side in the same room, a competition out of which would arise the new idea of artistic "genius." In this rich, fascinating book, published in England to great acclaim ("Superb," --"The Observer"), Jonathan Jones explores this fierce artistic duel between Leonardo and Michelangelo. Here is the master, Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned at age fifty-two by the Florentine Republic to paint a fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio. And, with an identical commission from Machiavelli, Leonardo's implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo, working on the same wall. Jones writes brilliantly of their "battle," in which Leonardo painted "The Battle of Anghiari" and Michelangelo "The Battle of Cascina"--the legendary "lost" masterpieces--and which led to the recognition, for the first time, of artists as godlike creators of the "new," a notion that still holds true today. A riveting exploration into one of history's most resonant exchanges of ideas.