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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 387160, member: 56&quot;]Michelangelo&#039;s nose was broken in a dispute with another sculptor, Pietro Torrigiano.</p><p><br /></p><p>But my point is that an artist always brings something of themselves to a portrait, it can be apparent in an original (compare Gertrude Stein, Picasso&#039;s portrait of Gertrude Stein, and Picasso) and the further you get from the original, all those little changes add up.</p><p><br /></p><p>(In the 1934 movie, The Scarlett Pimpernel, there&#039;s a scene where Lady Blakeney is having her portrait painted by Ramsay.&nbsp; Sir Percy Blakeney comes in and criticizes the portrait-in-progress.&nbsp; If I could do video clips, I&#039;d clip it and post it.&nbsp; It pretty much sums up one aspect of portraiture even if, in the script, it&#039;s meant more as a comment on Percy.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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