LEONARDO DA VINCI AND MICHELANGELO

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian sculptor, designer, architect, theorist, painter, scientist and engineer. He was the originator of what is described as the High Renaissance approach and used a huge authority on that-day and future artists. His works assisted to set up the principles of symbol and looks that were to govern schools of Europe for 500 years subsequently . While Michelangelo was an also an Italian draughtsman, sculptor, architect, and painter . The complex exequies after Michelangelo's demise held in Florence observed him as the best practitioner of the three visual arts of painting architecture and sculpture, and as a valued poet.

Thesis Statement

The works of both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci have one thing in common and it is their desire for perfection.

Michelangelo's Andrea Quaratesi, (1532) black chalk, (London,…That process presumably continued well beyond adolescence. Judging by the wealth of adaptation and reference in the artist's mature work, it must have involved drawing from the Antique, although direct trace of this is relatively rare in the surviving record. Vasari testified that Michelangelo burnt a great number of sheets towards the end of his life, because he did not want anyone to know what pains he had taken. Evidence of self-education may have been among these losses. (Welch, 2001)

A masterpiece is Lady with the Ermine. The most famous of Leonardo's Florentine paintings (and of all paintings) is the Mona Lisa (c.1503-7, Louvre), which is also known as La Gioconda and (in French) La Gioconde; the sitter was Lisa Gherardini, the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo; 'Mona' is an abbreviation of 'Madonna'. Lady with the Ermine, painted around 1490, shows Leonardo's skillful use of light and shadow to make figures appear more lifelike.  

[Lady with the Ermine]

Michelangelo: ...