The Lost Battles
Subtitle: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Publisher: Knopf
Published: Oct 23, 2012
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780307594754
Description: The great artistic clash between Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci marks the true beginning of the High Renaissance. Re-creating sixteenth-century Florence with astonishing verve and aplomb, the author 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.
Notes: Source title: The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance