10 FAMOUS NOSES (PART 1) 1. RUDOLF I OF HAPSBURG (German king and Holy Roman emperor, 1218-1291) According to one historian of anatomy, he "had so large a nose that no artist would ever paint its full dimension." 2. MICHELANGELO (Italian artist, 1475-1564) His nose was so squashed against his face that, in the words of one historian, "his forehead almost overhangs the nose." As a boy, Michelangelo had mercilessly teased the painter Pietro Torrigiano while Torrigiano was trying to study some art inside a church. Angered, Torrigiano turned on young Michelangelo and, in his own words, "dealt him such a blow on the nose that I felt the bone and the cartilage yield under my fist as if they had been made of crisp wafer. And so he'll go with my mark on him to his dying day." Source - Trivia History
