LONDON
(REUTERS).- A new book
focuses on a 16th century competition that set out to discover who was
the
better artist — Michelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci, and says the outcome
profoundly influenced the Renaissance titans’ legacies. Jonathan
Jones, a British art critic
who has been a Turner Prize judge, said the contest was familiar to art
historians but to his knowledge had not been treated as the subject for a
book. “The Lost Battles: Leonardo,
Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance,”
published by Simon & Schuster,” hits stores on Thursday and
describes a dramatic and defining moment in art history.