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Italy was the great art capital of the 16th century. In the Italian cities coinciding some of the best artists of the time. And also, characters destined to finance their works.
The Vatican constructions promoted by the popes Julio II and León X, which bring together architecture, sculpture and painting developed by the best artists such as Miguel Ángel and Rafael.
Explanation:
Leonardo, needed Ludovico Sforza, whom he called "my Lord", and not only had to live in the palace, but as much as Sforza was lenient with Leonardo and felt some sympathy for him, he was also the owner of his life: he decided where he was going and for how long, like when he sent to the convent Santa María de las Gracias in Milan, where Leonardo painted "The Last Supper", a request from Sforza
On the other hand, Michelangelo, who, having a more timid and insecure character, sometimes the requests of the Medici in Firenze and the Roman popes who take away the time to perform the works he wanted to do. Michelangelo's career was a sway between two Italian cities: Florence and Rome. In both, they found the patrons who financed their great projects. Michelangelo made a sculpture of Pope Julius II in Bologna that would be destroyed a few years later.
Looking at the vault of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, it is evident that it was not a great painter who made this amazing fresco, but a sculptor. The painting that looks like a sculpture in high relief. The figures are in 3D. Michelangelo made use of the technique found "Scorzo", which is when you notice the protrusions of a knee, a cake, a shoulder, or any part of the body that is advanced with respect to the rest of the work.
Pope Julius II, was one of the main patrons of the Renaissance, and responsible for the change of the cultural centrality of Florence to Rome, painted in the work of Raphael Pope Julius II. Another interesting point of Rafael is that he opts for a Latin cross plant in his work
