Title: The lost battles
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.
Subjects: Mural painting and decoration, War in art, Renaissance Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance, Art, renaissance, Leonardo, da vinci, 1452-1519, Michelangelo buonarroti, 1475-1564
Places: Italy, Florence
People: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Time periods: 16th century