Michelangelo Portrait Gallery

Thanks to a broken nose that didn't heal straight, his height (or lack of it) and a general tendency to care nothing for his overall appearance, Michelangelo was never considered handsome. Though his reputation for ugliness never stopped the extraordinary artist from creating beautiful things, it may have had something to do with his reluctance to paint or sculpt a self-portrait. There is no documented self-portrait of Michelangelo, but he did put himself in his work once or twice, and other artists of his day found him a worthwhile subject.

Here is a collection of portraits and other artwork depicting Michelangelo Buonarroti, as he was known during his lifetime and as he was envisioned by later artists.