# Bust of Michelangelo

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## Artwork

- Artist: [DANIELE da Volterra](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Bronze

## Commentary

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.

## Related artworks

- [Aeneas with a Boy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/aeneas-with-a-boy-r8f631c26678987>)
- [Beheading of St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/beheading-of-st-john-the-baptist-r248dc4cdb0d03f>)
- [Bust of Michelangelo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/bust-of-michelangelo-r264fe654a09dff>)
- [Bust of Michelangelo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/bust-of-michelangelo-rd6ed29b2d30452>)
- [David and Goliath](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/david-and-goliath-rda41c08255571f>)
- [Madonna with Child, Sts Giovannino and Barbara](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/madonna-with-child-sts-giovannino-and-barbara-r4926bfddc5b16f>)
- [Massacre of the Innocents](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/massacre-of-the-innocents-rcb998c18381118>)
- [Portrait of Michelangelo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/portrait-of-michelangelo-r1aa1d6e0bcc43c>)
- [Portrait of Michelangelo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/portrait-of-michelangelo-r2e5411855ae0b8>)
- [The Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/the-assumption-of-the-virgin-rd2376e93fb5ce4>)
- [The Massacre of the Innocents](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/the-massacre-of-the-innocents-r4484ef62afea5b>)
- [The Presentation of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daniele-da-volterra-r15c446f17b4900/the-presentation-of-the-virgin-rdde4943f5c7979>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)