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How a single year in Florence changed art forever

Some of the most celebrated works ever created sprung from the fierce rivalry that existed between Florentine residents Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael

‘The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist’, c.1508, by Michelangelo’s youthful rival Raphael. Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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