The squabble ended when the jealous, hot-tempered Torrigiani punched Michelangelo in the nose so hard that (he bragged later) “I felt the bone and cartilage of the nose give way, as if it were ...

So that fellow will carry my signature till he dies’. He was right: Michelangelo’s broken nose can clearly be seen in portraits of him made nearly 70 years later. Torrigiani claimed that he lost his ...

Michelangelo, on the other hand, had a broken nose his whole life, but it didn’t seem to have an adverse effect on his work. For the full story, see George Bull’s Michelangelo: A Biography.

Bomford also drew attention to the Met's circa-1544 unfinished portrait of Michelangelo, whose broken nose attests to his difficult personality. (He was slugged during a fight with a fellow ...

On loan from the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the drawing is anything but idealised, with Michelangelo’s famously flattened nose, broken in a fight when he was a teenager, serving as the focal ...