According to Blunts assessment of Leonardo and Michelangelo, they are similar in their devotion to humanist theories when approaching ones subject, highlighting popular christian and pagan iconography, but when rendering their actual image a distinctly different style was apparent.
Michelangelo's approach to the physical beauty of the human form was obsessive, which explains his lack of interest in landscape. "'to paint beauty I need to see many beauties...'" It is simple, but is a basic idea when coming to understand his painting and sculpture. Imitating physical beauty and perfection was his niche, he wanted to capture or detain the perfection in human form, unlike Leonardo who seemed to want move along side nature. Studying natural processes and then expanding on them within his art instead of trying to imitate he created a different relationship with his subjects.
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