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From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both resided and performed in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, attractive 50-year-old at the peak of his job. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-20s, desperate to produce a name for himself. Michelangelo is a digital unknown when he profits to Florence and is victorious the commission rate to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures ever: David. Even though his impoverished family shuns him for being an artist, he is desperate to aid them. Living at the ft . of his misshapen block of marble, Michelangelo struggles until the stone finally commences to speak. Working against an impossible deadline, he commences his feverish carving. In the mean time, Leonardo's life is dropping apart: He manages to lose the hoped-for David commission rate; he can't seem to finish any project; he is obsessed with his ungainly soaring machine; he almost dies in war; his anatomist designs disastrously fail; and he is haunted by a woman he has observed in the marketplace - a merchant's wife, whom he is finally commissioned to coloring. Her name is Lisa, and she becomes his muse. Leonardo despises Michelangelo for his children and lack of class. Michelangelo both loathes and worships Leonardo's genius. Oil and Marble is the storyplot of their nearly overlooked rivalry. Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive and has got into with extraordinary empathy in to the heads and souls of two Renaissance experts. The book is an art background thriller.
