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Michelangelo was born at Caprese, a village in Florentine Later in life Michelangelo tried to suppress this fact, probably to make it seem that he had never had an ordinary workshop training; for it was he more than anyone else who introduced the idea of the 'Fine Arts' having no connection with the craft that painting had always previously been. His stay in the Ghirlandaio shop must also have coincided with his beginning to work as a sculptor in the Medici Garden, where antiques from their collection were looked after by Bertoldo.It must, however, have been Ghirlandaio who taught him the elements of fresco technique, and it was probably also in that shop that he made his drawings after the great Florentine masters of the past (copies after Giotto and Masaccio; now in the Louvre, in Munich, and in Vienna). Michelangelo produced at least two relief sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs (both 1489-92, Casa Buonarroti, Florence), which show that he had achieved a personal style at a very early age. Michelangelo could possibly be the greatest artist and sculptor who has ever lived.His paintings and sculptures have changed the meaning of art forever.
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence.Growing up in his father's Vinci home, Leonardo had access to scholarly texts owned by family and friends. He was also exposed to Vinci's longstanding painting tradition, and when he was about 15 his father apprenticed him to the renowned workshop of Andrea del Verrochio in Florence. Even as an apprentice, Leonardo demonstrated his colossal talent. Indeed, his genius seems to have seeped into a number of pieces produced by the Verrocchio's workshop from the period 1470 to 1475. For example, one of Leonardo's first big breaks was to paint an angel in Verrochio's "Baptism of Christ," and Leonardo was so much better than his master's that Verrochio allegedly resolved never to paint again. Leonardo stayed in the Verrocchio workshop until 1477 when he set up a shingle for himself.
1452-1519
1475-1564
Michelangelo and Lenardo da vinci had many things in common. They were both painters and they were both born in Florence Italy. Both artists were very passionate about their work neither would let anyone see their work before it was finished. and they both wished to return the art to it's original glory in Rome.
Click the photos to the left and right to learn more about the artists Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci with vidoes from Youtube.
Even though both were painters Michelangelo was more than that. He did almost everything. Leonardo da vinci is known for a lot more work and he did more things than michelangelo did. Michelangelo chose to turn to both drawing and sculpture and chose to return the world of art back to the worshiping of a human body. Leonardo da Vinci chose to take art to a science point of view. . Michelangelo has less cloth in his painting and builds the characters as very muscular, while da Vinci looked into detail of cloth as well as facial.
