Leonardo da Vinci, aged 52, had just returned to his native city and was busy painting his Mona Lisa. Michelangelo, 29, about to complete his David for the Florentine Republic. And Raphael ...
Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 ... It stands alongside the Mona Lisa as possibly the only other painting from Western art that has quite that iconic level.” Among the figures ...
home to Michelangelo’s David. Paris’ Louvre Museum dazzles with the Mona Lisa, while Machu Picchu’s ancient Incan citadel ...