i don't get why people rate da vinci higher than Michelangelo.

>>1716969
Michalangelo wouldn't stop fooling around, and Raphael was an asshole.

there was another thread yesterday with the ranking raphael > michelangelo > da vinci which is 100% accurate. not sure where i would put donatello -- probably between michelangelo and da vinci

it probably depends on how many works by each artist a person can name

Da Vinci's not the superior man, but he's definitely the most renown, seeing that his work is the easiest to identify.

>mona lisa
>the last supper
>vitruvian man
>numerous sketches depicting mechanical contraptions, anatomical diagrams, and breathtaking artwork

Michelangelo may have painted a number of influential pieces, but unless you bother to do any research, most people don't readily associate him with his creations. "David" is known as just "the statue of the guy with the small penis" to a lot of people, for example, and the same can be said for the rest of those men.

Also, Da Vinci was largely seen as a polymath whose artistic abilities were one of many. His contemporaries are seen as artists first, and everything else second, so they're not viewed as impressive.

>>1717100
But Michelangelo was a polymath too.
Nigga was an architect, a sculptor, a painter and designed clothing.
he just didn't do meme doodles of helicopters in ye oldene moleskine

>>1717140
Yeah, exactly. Most of these men were polymaths, Da Vinci's just more widely recognized as one for whatever reason.