![]() These two artists create their art very differently - discuss their different creative processes and how their art is a product of their approach. What were the differences between Michelangelo and Leonardo’s relationships with their families - and specifically their fathers? How do you think those relationships impacted their lives and art? ![]() Discuss their human struggles and flaws and personalities in this novel and how that element of humanity in these artists improves your experience of their art. Our society/history, puts artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo up on a pedestal/out of reach… Oil and Marble tries to make them HUMAN. How did each artist affect the other in the novel? Do you think we would have Michelangelo without Leonardo and vice versa and why? Who do you relate to more, Michelangelo or Leonardo, and why? Did reading Oil and Marble change your perspective on those works? Has anyone in the book club seen the Mona Lisa and/or the David in person. When I first started talking about the book, readers were surprised that Michelangelo and Leonardo lived at the same time - was anyone at your book club surprised? Did everyone know they lived at the same time? Why DON’T we know this about these two most famous artists? ![]()
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