Da Vinci vs Michelangelo: The Renaissance Grudge

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DA VINCI vs MICHELANGELO go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

MICHELANGELO

You paint, Leonardo, you tinker, and you never finish. A dozen half-done wonders. I carved David from one flawed block. Finished.

DA VINCI

Because you see only stone, Michelangelo. I see birds, and water, and war machines, and the human heart itself. A mind should not be chained to a single chisel.

MICHELANGELO

And yet the world walks miles to kneel beneath my ceiling. Your Last Supper is flaking off a wall as we speak.

DA VINCI

Art was never meant to last forever, my friend. Only to see further than the age that made it. I was painting the future. You were decorating the present.

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