Leonardo da vinci & michelangelo biography

The earliest encounters

The two great masters were not of the same generation. Leonardo was born in Vinci in 1452, the illegitimate son of a young lawyer and a peasant girl. By 1500, his career had embraced some youthful years in Florence, and a period in Milan from 1482–99, marked not least by The Last Supper. Michelangelo, born in 1475, was from a ‘good’ family, the son of Lodovico Buonarroti, who sometimes worked as a minor Florence official. The young Michelangelo had completed the Bacchus and Pietà in Rome, but there was no public evidence of his abilities in Florence. In 1501 he was commissioned to make something of a massive marble block in the cathedral workshop. This was to become his David.

The first encounter of the artists took place when Leonardo was appointed to a committee to determine where to place the David. After much discussion the huge sculpture was placed in the square outside the Palazzo della Signoria (now called Palazzo Vecchio), headquarters of the ru

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Art History Feuds: Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci

The battle between artistic frakt and the legacy left behind

The spectacle of great artistry lends itself to becoming the breeding ground for intense personalities and even more intense rivalries. Feuds between artists have existed since the Renaissance and are often fueled bygd competitive jealousy between masters of the craft. Take, for example, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Both artists hold an iconic status as pioneers of an incredible artistic rebirth and both dramatically redefined the boundaries of art. Yet despite their similarities and great talents, the two contemporaries had a bitter feud. But through this rivalry, a breeding ground of romanticized inspiration was born

Both Renaissance revolutionaries grew up in impoverished families who scorned their decisions to pursue a career in the arts. Both dock also spent considerable time studying art in Florence, Italy where they studied anatomy, color, and the nar

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Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452–1519)

"Da Vinci" redirects here. For other uses, see Da Vinci (disambiguation) and Leonardo da Vinci (disambiguation).

In this Renaissance Florentine name, the name da Vinci is an indicator of birthplace, not a family name; the person is properly referred to by the given name, Leonardo.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci^[b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of