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alone, which was a defining characteristic of Michelangelo went to the gardens of the
his career. This made him a very idealistic Medici Palace, presided over by Lorenzo the
man. He himself went to the quarries, and Magnificent, (the Florentine ruler famous for
fought against the dangers of fatal situations in encouraging a lot of culture and art) there were
the mountains: to choose his marble, because a lot of great artists present, such as Lorenzo di
he wanted nothing but a perfect sculpture. Credi and Niccolò Soggi. There, somehow,
when Lorenzo was roaming, he saw an
Fault: bad blood with Leonardo incomplete sculpture, which looked like the
Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo hated head of a faun. Looking at Michelangelo’s jaw-
each other. A point to be noted here also is the dropping precision, he took the decision of
age difference between the two, which is arranging to send him to live in the palace of
seventeen years. (Michelangelo being the Via Larga, where Michelangelo got a lot of
younger one.) Instead of having respect for an exposure. He seized the opportunity. The rest is
artist who was arguably one of the greatest history.
painters and scientists the world has seen,
Michelangelo often criticised Leonardo Da Fault: rude, stubborn and ill-mannered
Vinci. They never really had a confrontation Michelangelo was not a very well-mannered
face to face, except once, on a street, near the man. It was a tough job -- for someone even as
church of Santa Trinità. When some people big as a Pope -- to get kindness from him. He
asked Leonardo the meaning of a passage by was arrogant and cocky. Once he had to go to
Dante, Leonardo, seeing Michelangelo pass by, meet with Pope Julius II, and the Pope kept
pointed that Michelangelo should give the him waiting, thus making the artist so angry
explanation. (which seemed to be mockery) that he sent a message to the Pope that he is
Michelangelo countered, with an insult: ‘No, leaving for Florence. With a lot of difficulty,
explain it yourself, horse-modeller that you are, Michelangelo was persuaded to change his
who, unable to cast a statue in bronze, were mind.
forced to give up the attempt in
shame.’ (Courtesy: The Notebooks of Leonardo Michelangelo WAS a highbrow after all. As a
da Vinci, Oxford University Press, 1952, trans. person, one would say that he was completely
Irma A. Richter, p.356) justified to be the kind of person he wanted to
Merit: the go-getter be because his artistic creations were
This man became what he became due to the constructive pieces of emotion. He believed in
opportunities he grabbed. When a young what he stood for and went against all those
