Michelangelo/Leonardo

I started a new book yesterday written by Ross King entitled Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling.  Today I coincidentally came across a NYT story about a search for a long lost frescoe painted by Leonardo da Vinci using some high tech 21st century sleuthing methods.  The book, despite the title, actually references this lost da Vinci fresco as it explains that da Vinci and Michelangelo were each commissioned to paint on opposite walls of a council room inside the Palazzo della Signoria which was a government building in Florence in a sort of competition with each other on a scale of twenty two feet high and fifty four feet long each.  Amazing how inter-connected life can be sometimes.  Here is a link to the NYT article:www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/arts/design/leonardo-mural-in-florence-may-be-revealed.html?_r=1

Even more interesting than the initial reference in the book to this da Vinci fresco is that the author goes on to state rather offhandedly that neither fresco was fully completed by the artists despite rave reviews to the sketches that each completed prior to beginning work on the frescoes themselves.  The plot thickens!  Looking forward to hearing how this story ends in the 21st century.