Florence, 1504. Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo go head to head. Experience the greatest duel in art history, in total immersion.
Florence, 1504. Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo go head to head. Experience the greatest duel in art history, in total immersion.
The Experience
They lived at the same time, in the same city, and never liked each other. Here Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo answer each other wall to wall, across nearly a thousand square metres of projection. Notebooks of flying machines, unfinished marbles, rival frescoes and the vault of the Sistine Chapel: you wander freely between the works of the two greatest artists of the Renaissance.
On Tour
Leonardo vs Michelangelo travels the world. Find the immersive challenge in a city near you.
IDEAL — Centre d'Arts Digitals
Season EndedArtbox — Warsaw, Poland
Season EndedUnited Kingdom
Coming SoonGreece
Coming SoonThe Journey
The Mona Lisa, the David and the Sistine vault unfold around you, from floor to ceiling. Every brushstroke, every vein of marble, at a scale you have never seen before.
Headset on, fly over the city of the Medici, then step into the workshops of the two masters. You are no longer observing the Renaissance: you are in it.
Notebooks, machines and anatomical drawings on one side; marble dust and chisels on the other. Life-size reconstructed sets, close enough to touch with your eyes, to get inside the mind of each genius.
Alone in an impossible museum, facing the Mona Lisa, the David and the Sistine Chapel at life size. Time is running out, and you must choose: which one to save, which one to condemn to oblivion?
Throughout the journey, you take sides. Room after room, your choice counts, and at the exit only one question remains: Leonardo or Michelangelo?
Play Online
Extend the challenge beyond the walls of the exhibition. Both games run right here on the page — no download required.
Reach across the vault of the Sistine Chapel and complete the divine spark. A browser game built in the spirit of The Creation of Adam.
Play Now
Take to the skies aboard Leonardo's flying machine. A platformer that turns the master's dream of flight into play.
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