3rd of May

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features critic and author Jonathan Jones. His new book, “The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance,” has just been published in the United States.
It tells one of the best stories in art history: The story of the rivalry between Leonardo and Michelangelo at the dawn of the Renaissance, specifically the story of how the Florentine republic commissioned each of them to make a major battle painting in Florence in the early 1500s. Jones re-tells the story of their rivalry with flair, vigor and detail. His story kicks off with the siting of Michelangelo’s David (above) in a prominent space in Florence.
On the second segment, Saint Louis Art Museum curator Judith Mann talks about her new exhibition, “Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master.” It’s on view through January 20, 2013 at SLAM before traveling to the National Gallery in London next year. The exhibition is accompanied by a thorough, intense, richly illustrated catalogue published by the Yale University Press. The show presents the little-known-in-America Barocci as a key pivot between Florentine mannerism and the Roman Baroque style. Check out videos of the exhibition here.
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