Alison Spittle
Catharsis
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The Rivalry Between Leonardo and Michelangelo
Leonardo's warning in his notebook to an unnamed anatomical painter about the dangers of emphasizing musculature for its own sake was a reaction to the heroically defined bodies created by Michelangelo. So he's kind of saying that your sculptures look like a bag of walnuts, which is, again, like we say, old timey insults are great. I don't think they ever really made it up, but they did push each other's work.
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