DIOGEN pro art magazine No 64... March 2016

DIOGEN pro art magazine No 64....Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.....Jonathan Jones: Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo – who was the greater artist? A close look at their two masterpieces offers clues – but in fact the truth had already been established in an extraordinary competition. People are pushing at my back and trying to shove me aside, so they can pose, smiling, in front of the most famous smile in the world. Every photographic device the 21st century can invent, from the slenderest mobile phone to the most phallic telephoto lens, is being raised above the crowd to point at the woman isolated in her glass box. Her twilit painted world is jarred by flashbulbs as if by lightning.