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Which Sistine fresco shows two fingers almost touching?
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What did Michelangelo have broken in a teenage fistfight?
Answer: His nose
Why: Fellow pupil Pietro Torrigiano threw the punch when Michelangelo was 17, and the crooked nose shows in his portraits.
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What did Michelangelo design to defend Florence in 1529?
Answer: Fortifications
Why: Sixteen of his fortification drawings survive at the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence.
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Which city got the first Michelangelo sculpture to leave Italy?
Answer: Bruges
Why: Bruges cloth merchants bought the marble Madonna in 1504, and it stands in the city's Church of Our Lady.
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What did Michelangelo paint the Sistine ceiling onto?
Answer: Wet plaster
Why: Pigment mixed only with water sinks into the fresh lime plaster and is locked in as it sets, so no glue binder is needed.
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In which century was today's Swiss Guard uniform designed?
Answer: 20th century
Why: Commander Jules Repond introduced it in 1914, modelled on 16th-century pictures of the guard.
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How much of St Peter's dome stood when Michelangelo died?
Answer: Only the drum
Why: Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana completed the dome itself in 1590, 26 years after his death.
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