Leonardo vs Michelangelo

The compulsion to pit Leonardo against Michelangelo has gripped mankind for over five centuries.

Whether it was by their Florentine contemporaries (who commissioned each titan to create a battle scene on opposite walls in the Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio) or by modern historians and authors (who sometimes skew their works with intentional bias or mistaken judgments), the urge to assess and pass final verdicts on these two colossal artists persists.

In this brief and enlightening ...