The lost battles : Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the artistic duel that defined the Renaissance / Jonathan Jones.
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 t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., London, in 2010"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780307594754 (hbk.) 0307594750 (hbk.) |