Michelangelo vs. Leonardo?

Expert's book chronicles story of 16th-century art contest fought with dueling battle paintings

LONDON - A new book focuses on a 16th-century competition that set out to discover who was the better artist - Michelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci, and says the outcome profoundly influenced the Renaissance titans' legacies.

Jonathan Jones, a British art critic who has been a Turner Prize judge, said the contest was familiar to art historians but to his knowledge had not been treated as the subject for a book.