From one of Britain s most respected art historians, art critic ofThe 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...