And them Chinese keep jackin up the price of spaghetti… That’s *another* story, geez, like trying to get paid, the paint guy runs out of cerulean blue just I’m getting to Mary’s robe…ĭaVinci: Tell be about it! What’s a small businessman to do. Mike: Dog’s fine, it’s the damn roof on the house.ĭaVinci: That old roof you been working on? Aren’t you don’t with that yet? You don’t look like a Renaissance Man today. But I certainly hope we can someday see da Vinci’s work revealed if it is waiting behindĪuthor: A Journey into Michelangelo’s RomeĭaVinci: Nah, it’s somethin, I can see it. Sadly, neither the Battle of the Frescoes nor Julius II’s tomb turned out quite as they were originally imagined. AfterĪll, he’d just finished the Rome Pieta and the David. Julius II’s tomb was originally conceived with 40 life-sized sculptures - a much more appealing project for a young artist being hailed as Italy’s greatest sculptor. When originally conceived, the tomb promised a lifetime of work as a sculptor - for Michelangelo considered himself a sculptor, He was with working on his greatest commission: the tomb of Pope Julius II. However, I think at that point in his life, Michelangelo was less in concerned with besting da Vinci than Neither Michelangelo nor da Vinci was a particularly humble man, either, and there was tension between them. It would not surprise me if he did indeed spare da Vinci’s work from destruction. And it is very exciting to think that we just might see it revealed. There is good reason to believe that da Vinci’s work is behind layers of plaster and paint in Florence. Or your thoughts on what to do if there’s a real painting to be found inside that wall today. What might they have said to each other as they were working on rival murals side by side? For now, though, let’s imagine that Michelangelo actually went to work on the wallĪt the same time that Leonard was painting. I’ll describe how the scientists arrived at that conclusion in a subsequent post. Hall with his plans for “The Battle of Cascina.” As I mention in the column, the scientists who have been searching for the Leonardo painting believe that Michelangelo may have been miffed at beingĪssigned the dark side of the room. To paint side-by-side battle murals on the Hall of 500 in the the Palazzo Vecchio.īoth artists prepared preliminary sketches for their murals, but only Leonardo actually went into the hall to start work on his, which was “The Battle of Anghiari.” Michelangelo never proceeded in the If it’s there, what should be done with it?Ĭan you imagine the conversation if Leonardo and Michelangelo had been in the same room working on rival paintings? That’s what the leaders of Florence planned early 16th century, when both artists were commissioned The version shown above is a copy that was reworked by Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish Baroque painter.Īfter writing about the search for a lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci in my Findings column, I have several questions for you:Ĭould Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece really be hidden inside a wall in Florence? The painting itself vanished, but other artists went to see it on the wall of the Hall of 500 in Florence and made copies of it that survive.
Kalpa Group Project The horsemen’s struggle for a flag, which was the central scene in Leonardo Da Vinci’s uncompleted painting, “The Battle of Anghiari,” measured nearly 15 feet by 20 feet.
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