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When Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance painter, was invited to paint a huge fresco in Florence - he could not have imagined that he would end up in direct competition with Michelangelo. Jonathan Jones, art critic for the Guardian newspaper, has written about the rivalry.
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