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From one of Britains most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardianthe galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo. We see Leonardo, having just completed The Last Supper, and being celebrated by all of Florence for his miraculous portrait of the wife of a textile manufacturer. That paintingthe Mona Lisabeing called the most lifelike anyone had ever seen yet, more divine than human, was captivating the entire Florentine Republic.And Michelangelo, completing a commissioned statue of David, the first colossus of the Renaissance, the archetype hero for the Republic epitomizing the triumph of the weak over the strong, helping to reshape the public identity of the city of Florence and conquer its heart.In The Lost Battles, published in England to great acclaim (SuperbThe Observer; Beguilingly writtenThe Guardian), Jonathan Jones brilliantly sets the scene of the timethe politics; the world of art and artisans; and the shifting, agitated cultural landscape. We see Florence, a city freed from the oppressive reach of the Medicis, lurching from one crisis to another, trying to protect its liberty in an Italy descending into chaos, with the new head of the Republic in search of a metaphor that will make clear the glory that is Florence, and seeing in the commissioned paintings the expression of his vision.Jones reconstructs the paintings that Leonardo and Michelangelo undertookLeonardos Battle of Anghiari, a nightmare seen in the eyes of the warrior (it became the first modern depiction of the disenchantment of war) and Michelangelos Battle of Cascina, a call to arms and the first great transfiguration of the erotic into art. Jones writes about the competition; how it unfolded and became the defining moment in the transformation of craftsman to artist; why the Florentine government began to fall out of love with one artist in favor of the other; and howand whyin a competition that had no formal prize to clearly resolve the outcome, the battle became one for the hearts and minds of the Florentine Republic, with Michelangelo setting out to prove that his work, not Leonardos, embodied the future of art. Finally, we see how the result of the competition went on to shape a generation of narrative paintings, beginning with those of Raphael. A riveting exploration into one of historys most resonant exchanges of ideas, a rich, fascinating book that gives us a whole new understanding of an age and those at its center.

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright 2010 Jonathan Jones
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.aaknopf.com
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are
registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., London, in 2010.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jones, Jonathan.
The lost battles : Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the artistic duel that defined the Renaissance/by Jonathan Jones. pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.
1. Michelangelo Buonarroti, 14751564. 2. Leonardo, da Vinci,
14521519. 3. RenaissanceItaly. I. Title.
N 6923. B 9 J 66 2012
709.22dc23 2012018978

Jacket images: (top and bottom) Florence in 1480. Catena Map detail showing the Duomo, Piazza della Signoria, and Palazzo Vecchio. Museo di Firenze comera, Florence, Italy. Scala/Art Resource, NY; (left) Leonardo da Vinci. Interfoto/Sammlung Rauch/Mary Evans; (right) Michelangelo. Private Collection/Ken Welsh/The Bridgeman Art Library

Jacket design by Linda Huang

eISBN: 978-0-307-96101-3

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F OR MY DAUGHTER , P RIMAVERA

C ONTENTS

P ART O NE
Genius in the Streets, 15034

P ART T WO
The Art of War, 15045

P ART T HREE
The Lost Battles, 1506Present

I LLUSTRATIONS

Daniele da Volterra, Bust of Michelangelo, 15646. Runion des Muses Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

Francesco Melzi, attrib., Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1515. Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012

The Chain Map of Florence, circa 1480. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Donatello, Judith, circa 144660. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Fra Bartolommeo, Portrait of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, circa 1498. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Santi di Tito, Portrait of Niccol Machiavelli, later sixteenth century. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Raphael, Portrait of Maddalena Strozzi Doni, circa 15067. Scala / Art Resource, NY

View of David and the Captives, Accademia Gallery, Florence. Alinari / Art Resource, NY

Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi, circa 1475. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Botticelli, Primavera, circa 14812. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, studies for the casting of the Sforza horse, early 1490s. Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, circa 14957. Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit culturali / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, sketches for The Battle of Anghiari (autumn 15034). Scala / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, A Battle Scene and other studies, 1504. The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, architectural sketches and poetry, 1504. The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY

Faade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, architect Leon Battista Alberti, probably begun about 1458. Vanni / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, the layers of the brain and scalp compared with the layers of an onion (early 1490s). Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012

Michelangelo, A Male Nude, 15045. Foto Marburg / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, A Seated Nude, 15045. The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, figure for The Battle of Cascina, 15045. Runion des Muses Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, sketches for Leda and horse studies, circa 1504. Alinari / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, designs for cannon and guns, 1480s. Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012

Leonardo da Vinci, Neptune, circa 1504. Alinari / Art Resource, NY

Antonio Pollaiuolo, Battle of Naked Men, 1465. Image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY

Raphael, Self-Portrait, 15046. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II, 1511. National Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, studies of The Infant Christ and a Cat, late 1470scirca 1480. The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, studies of horsemen, 15034. The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, notes on safe flying and wing design, 1505. Photoservice Electa / Art Resource, NY

Unknown sixteenth-century artist, The Battle of Anghiari. Alinari / Art Resource, NY

Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ, 1450s. National Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY

Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano, probably circa 143840. National Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY

Lions head helmet, Italy, circa 147580. Image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, Running Nudes, 15045. Runion des Muses Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, Brutus, circa 1542. Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit culturali / Art Resource, NY

Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, The Flood, Sistine Chapel, Rome, 150812. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Bronzino, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, circa 1545. National Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, tomb of Giuliano de Medici, 151934. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, Capture of Rebellious Slave, circa 151316. Runion des Muses Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, Night, 152530. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo and others, St. Peters Basilica, Rome, works by Michelangelo, 154664. Vanni / Art Resource, NY

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Cosimo Rosselli, attrib., The Execution of Savonarola, circa 1498. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Titian, The Bacchanal of the Andrians, circa 15235. Scala / Art Resource, NY

Raphael, The Entombment, 1507. Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit culturali / Art Resource, NY

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Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa. Runion des Muses Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

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Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 150812. Scala / Art Resource, NY

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Michelangelo, compositional drawing for The Battle of Cascina, 15045. Alinari / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, Heads of Two Soldiers, 15045. The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest/Scala / Art Resource, NY

Michelangelo, A Male Nude, 15045. Runion des Muses Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

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Leonardo da Vinci, Proportion Studies and Horsemen, 15034. Cameraphoto Arte, Venice / Art Resource, NY

Leonardo da Vinci, studies of expression in

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