This is a novel about the rivalry between two great creators and the birth of two great masterpieces. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti lived and worked in Florence. It is there that they first collide in the struggle for the right to sculpt a statue from a block of marble, nicknamed Duccio's stone. As a result, Michelangelo takes up work on the legendary David, and in the meantime Leonardo’s life is going downhill: he loses orders, is unable to complete a single project, and he is haunted by thoughts of a woman named Lisa del Giocondo. Published in Russian for the first time.