Leonardo was under the impression that nature was the wisest teacher along with his ever curious mind gives rise to his Renaissance style of thinking, outside of the church ideal. Michelangelo was very much so a Renaissance man due to his restless mind that kept exploring until the end of his life. Michelangelo and Leonardo also took part in the study of anatomy therefore adding to their already extensive Renaissance style of thinking and interpretations. However, Michelangelo was still somewhat religious and had a growing spiritual awareness, whereas Leonardo was not, so Leonardo can still be seen as more of a Renaissance man. To Michelangelo, art was suffering and a way for him to express his internal struggle of his past humiliations, this contradicted Leonardo's calm and quiet approach to art through the expression of human forms. Leonardo would show humans in his paintings from the bones outward, expressing great detail. Whereas Michelangelo would show his sculptures as if they were attempting to escape from the stone that they were encased in.