Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Renaissance art titans face off in London’s new exhibition

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The Royal Academy's new exhibition spotlights the fierce rivalry and mutual influence between Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and a young Raphael in Florence around 1504.

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00:00For a few years, they go head to head, you know, the two titans of the Italian Renaissance.

00:25And they're very jealous of each other.

00:26They don't particularly like each other.

00:28They are very different in personality and character, I think, and in approach.

00:34But those are the years when Michelangelo makes his David, Leonardo starts painting

00:39the Mona Lisa.

00:40So it's a very exciting moment of what we now think of as sort of the beginnings of

00:45the high Renaissance.

01:14It was Michelangelo who was almost like a film director trying to get bodies to move

01:21and be energetic and show energy and tension, almost like Tarantino or Hitchcock if he was

01:27alive today.

01:29And then on the other side, trying to do something different, Leonardo da Vinci is realising

01:35that emotion doesn't have to just come through strength, but could come through emotion.

01:40So he was almost like Mario Testino or Annie Leibovitz.

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