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A review by sarah2696
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo & the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
5.0
"You don't need to chip away at Vasari's frescoes to see The Battle of Anghiari. It's shadows are eternal, it's truth as old and as new as human folly. Switch off the latest barbarisms on the television news, close your eyes and it will come to you." -
This book contains very little of the actual paintings themselves and much more background. However, in all the books I have read about Leonardo, never have I read one that is able to encapsulate the relationship between Da Vinci and Michelangelo so wonderfully. Jones is able to give them emotions and depth and make them so much more than two historical figures that didn't really like each other. He adds shadows and context and although I picked this book up expecting a narrative of the paintings in the Great Hall, I was met with something quite different.
This book contains very little of the actual paintings themselves and much more background. However, in all the books I have read about Leonardo, never have I read one that is able to encapsulate the relationship between Da Vinci and Michelangelo so wonderfully. Jones is able to give them emotions and depth and make them so much more than two historical figures that didn't really like each other. He adds shadows and context and although I picked this book up expecting a narrative of the paintings in the Great Hall, I was met with something quite different.