The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jones, Jonathan

The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307741783)

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The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jones, Jonathan

The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance

$24.00
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jones, Jonathan

The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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From one of Britain's most respected art historians, art critic of The 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 Florentine victory, the battle of Anghiari. As the paintings progressed, Michelangelo set out to prove that his work, not Leonardo's, embodied the future of art--but in fact, the influence of both would become visible in the works of subsequent generations of artists. The Lost Battles is a riveting look at one of history's most resonant exchanges of ideas and offers a whole new understanding of an age and those at its center.



Author: Jonathan Jones
ISBN-10: 0307741788
ISBN-13: 9780307741783
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/13/2013
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.45h x 4.72w x 0.78d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/13/2013 pg. 36
By Jonathan Jones
By Jonathan Jones
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JONATHAN JONES was born in Wales and graduated from Cambridge University. He is the art critic for The Guardian and a contributor to numerous magazines and newspapers, among them Frieze, RA Magazine, The Independent, the London Evening Standard, and the Los Angeles Times. He appears regularly on the BBC series Private Life of a Masterpiece and has served on the jury for the Turner Prize and the BP Portrait Award. Jones has lectured at the National Gallery, the British Museum, and the Tate Modern. Jones lives in London with his wife and daughter.

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