Artist vs. Artist: Other artistic battles throughout history

Henri Matisse's Le bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905-06.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin Rouge.

Georges Bracque's Pedestal Table Paris, 1913.

Emily Duffy and Nicolino are hardly the first artists to feud over ideas, projects or schools of thought. Artistic battles have raged throughout history between some of the world’s most reknowned artists.

Sculptor Pietro Torrigiano is said to have broken Michelangelo's nose in an argument over another artist's work. Although Torrigiano was not charged with assault, he was exiled to England.

Degas supposedly said art nouveau painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautre "was not an idiot, but merely a painter of the period who wouldn't last," according to an article by Milton Esterow, editor of ARTNews Magazine. With regard to pointilist Georges Seurat’s work, Degas said, "I wouldn't have noticed it except that it is so big."

The word Cubism, which describes a type of art and developed in France between 1907 and the early 1920’s, was coined when artist Henri Matisse apparently called a painting by Georges Braque "petits cubes," or little cubes.

Matisse himself had troubles. Pablo Picasso spent the first few decades of the 20th century ridiculing and trying to top Matisse, according to the documentary "Matisse & Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry." In the 1930s, however, after viewing a Matisse retrospective, Picasso was apparently so awestruck that he was unable to paint for six months.

Picasso eventually painted a series of "sleeping beauties," in homage to his rival, and the two ultimately became friends. When Matisse died in 1954, Picasso said, "I have to paint for both of us now."