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 I Choose The Drawings of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance because both are amazing artists in our history. In Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance, I learned that Leonardo da Vinci had many skills such as a painter, engineer, architect, botany, sculptor and hydrodynamics etc. Also, the amount of time he put into thinking about his paintings and what he was going to create before he actually picked up a paintbrush. He also developed urban projects for Milan that had been ruined by the plague. This video relates to the book because it talks about Renaissance and the movement of art at that time. In The Drawings of Michelangelo, It is explained how his works of art can be used as learning material for students. Michelangelo's drawings revealed an emphasis his drawings had on human figures. The Sistine Chapel was one of his greatest works but also one of the most difficult. He was a christian and also had an admiral approach to the male form. This video relates to the text because Michelangelo also had an impact on the Renaissance and he was around when there were vast changes. I think the films do a good job explaining the different facts of each artist and the importance of their work during the time period they created it.