No need to bring Dali into the conversation.
He’s right. Leonardo didn’t have any children.
Michelangelo and “The Last Judgment”?
(just kidding… but it IS the best painting in the Sistine Chapel. Makes the ceiling look positively pedestrian)
And that would be what? If you say the Mona Lisa, you lose.
Serious boobs-on-bois happening there, though…
- La Gioconda,* of course.
Well, dodged that one…:rolleyes:
Doesn’t a debate over the relative merits of artists really belong in CS?
That name sounds suspiciously Italian for something painted by Hieronymus Bosch.
Personally, I’m quite partial to the veiled marble statues of Antonio Corradiniand Giovanni Strazza
I mean, look at this shit. It makes me angry how good they are. You could take a real veil and drape it over a person and it wouldn’t look half as good. I can conceive of how a good painting like the Mona Lisa is created, and how a sculptor carves and sands away marble to look like the Pieta. But I can’t being to imagine how these veiled statues are made
That’s black magic man, I refuse to believe there is a natural non-magical way of making what seems to be *transparent * marble.
We’re arguing over the greatest painting? Michelangelo (and no doubt other greats) saw painting as a poor second to sculpture.
Artist friends of mine, who have wondered about this for school credit, insist that these two are just the best known of a generation of exemplary artists and likely neither is the best. It’s like calling Eric Clapton and Keith Richards “the best guitarists” because you’re not familiar with Buddy Guy, Danny Gatton and Django Reinhardt and a thousand better unknown guitarists.
Relative to each other, Leonardo was the greater all-around genius, but Michelangelo was the better artist, certainly the better sculptor. The freakish proportions in David and Pieta have been written off to the fact that they were intended to be seen from a low angle.
Ah, yes, the question that has divided art historians for centuries: Which was gayer? 
Answer: It was Michelangelo. Leonardo was probably celibate/asexual.
There was a comedy show wherein Leonardo appeared in feudal England, presumably to do some work for the king or some other. When they saw him, the people spoke with awe, “Leonardo Da Vinci, the greatest artist the world has known” to which Leo answered with bitterness, “I’m just second choice! Michelangelo is cooped up in a chapel!”
Both Leonardo and Michaelangelo are great artist. They have both genius in the field of arts. The only difference is that Leonardo’s work was bit ahead of year than Michaelangelo that is why Leonardo was regarded as prime exemplar of the universal genius.
They were wrong.
I really like Leonardo’s use of paint. The man occasionally did amazing things with color and texture.
Maybe it doesn’t have to be a competition!
Apparently, Michelangelo had a reputation in his day as quite a forger. Whether this makes him better or worse than Leonardo is entirely up to you, though.
I’m more partial to Raphael for painting and Brunelleschi for overall genius.