Bust of Michelangelo
by DANIELE da Volterra, Bronze
Michelangelo became the subject of younger artists who made bronze busts of him even during his lifetime. In his features they sought the traces of extraordinary existence, already engrained in his face during his youth with a nose broken by Torrigiani; they sought his solitary, unique character in order to express in the image of this Titan the contrast between the toughened face of this old man and the beauty of his universal art.