Paragone summary

Not surprisingly our group came to the same conclusion that neither type of art is superior. We found Leonardo Da Vinci’s attitude pretentious and his opinion clearly biased. We were rather surprised at his lack of respect for sculpture. We didn’t find any validity in Leonardo’s arguments and thus found the use of the paragone to be rather useless and highly opinionated. We found that both types presented the same satisfaction even though the skills and mediums differed. This influenced our interpretation because we were able to appreciate both types of art as being both beautiful and requiring equal amounts of skill. Our group did reach a consensus on this issue. We all believe that both painting and sculpture are equally difficult and require equal amounts of skill, just different skill sets.