Michelangelo and Leonardo Both Painted a Fresco

Michelangelo and Leonardo both painted a fresco. Said Leo, “I’ll paint it after I drink my expresso”. The result was “The Battle of Anghiari”, And the Italians ooh’d and they ahh’d like it was a Ferrari. But it faded from view in a decade or two, So today no one knows what Leonardo did do. Now Michelangelo climbed up onto his scaffold And painted the ceiling of that Vatican chapel, Which can be viewed still to the present day. And since, as we said, da Vinci’s faded away, Faded since he painted in an experimental technique, One might say that the ceiling won the battle, so to speak. (Sept. 5, 2016; Revised Sept. 8, 2016)