The Long-Standing Debate About Whether Painting Is More Noble Than Sculpture

Michael Angelo over the course of his career was aware of Leonardo's opinions. And then it says which about the older artist does not seem to have been reticent. When Michael Angelo was asked by Benedetto Varchi in 1549 about the long-standing debate about the ranking of the various arts, he wrote acidly. As to that man who wrote saying that painting was more noble than sculpture, if he didn't know as much about the other subjects on which he has written, why my serving maid could have written better. Maybe his serving maid is very good at writing though. We don't know how good that maid was. She wasn't a depot baby, she was quite