Genius of Michelangelo

For the Republic—The Battle of Cascina (1x10)

Air date: Jan 01, 2007

We take up one of Michelangelo's most important, although never executed, commissions, the Battle of Cascina, a giant fresco intended for the Florentine Hall of State in direct competition with a work by Leonardo da Vinci—whose own fresco was also never completed—before turning to Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna.