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The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Lost BattlesA riveting re-creation of the moment when Michelangelo and Leonardo went head-to-head to compete for a commission in sixteenth-century Florence
Full description- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Published: 01 April 2011
- Format: Paperback 368 pages
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- Categories: Art History | Art History: Renaissance | Paintings | Individual Artists, Art Monographs
- ISBN 13: 9781416526056 ISBN 10: 1416526056
- Sales rank: 135,392
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Full description for The Lost Battles
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 they competed with each other directly, to paint the walls of a room in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. It is remarkable enough that the same city had produced two such geniuses in the same century -- let alone that they met and exhibited together. But this competition, perhaps the most important event in the history of Renaissance art, the moment at which individual style came to command its own value, has been largely forgotten because the rival works did not survive. This great artistic clash, Jonathan Jones argues in this riveting account, marks the true beginning of the High Renaissance. Re-creating sixteenth-century Florence with astonishing verve and aplomb, THE LOST BATTLES not only sheds new light on the making of the modern world but, in its portrait of two cultural titans going toe to toe, rewires our understanding of the personalities of the Renaissance's greatest icons.
