Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Renaissance art titans face off in London’s new exhibition

For a few years, they go head to head, you know, the two titans of the Italian Renaissance. And they're very jealous of each other, they don't particularly like each other, they are very different in personality and character, I think, in approach. But those are the years when Michelangelo makes his David, Leonardo starts painting the Mona Lisa. So it's a very exciting moment of what we now think of as the beginnings of the High Renaissance. It was Michelangelo who was almost like a film director trying to get bodies to move and be energetic and show energy and tension, almost like Tarantino or Hitchcock if he was alive today. And then on the other side, trying to do something different. Leonardo da Vinci is realising that emotion doesn't have to just come through strength, but could come through emotion. So he was almost like Mario Testino or Annie Leibovitz.