There is centuries debate went on over which was a “nobler” art: painting or sculpture?

The painters said they had to invent everything and the sculptor practically nothing. His material, stone, was already a finished work of nature—beautiful, imposing. Someone pretty sophistically even said the only thing the sculptor had to do was remove the stone from a figure that was already in the block.

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Of all the arts, sculpture, with its three-dimensional power, presented the greatest challenge to the supremacy of painting. Leonardo claims that he has the right to argue for painting because he is “equally well-versed in both arts”. Firstly, the demands placed on the painter were infinitely greater than those required of the sculptor. While the painter had no less than 10 considerations in the creation of his works, namely “light, shade, colour, body, shape, position, distance, nearness, motion and rest”, the sculptor had only to consider “body, shape, position motion, and rest.” Sculpture demands less talent or ingegno than painting.
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