| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xii, 354 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., London, in 2010"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-318) and index. |
| Contents |
Genius in the streets, 1503-4 -- The insult -- The fame machine -- Heroics -- Stoning David -- The ascent of art -- The art of war, 1504-5 -- Bloodstains -- The genius in his study -- Naked truth -- Master of war -- The raid -- The great swan -- Hell's mouth -- The lost battles, 1506-present -- The good citizen -- School of the world -- Prisoners. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
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Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
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Renaissance -- Italy.
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| ISBN |
9780307594754 hardback $35.00 |
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0307594750 hardback |
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