Croatian matchstick Michelangelo makes his labours life-size

Horvat inspects a new sculpture of Michelangelo made of matches in Domasinec, Croatia. Photo: Reuters

Croatian artist Tomislav Horvat is not the first person to make models out of matchsticks, but he may be the most ambitious.

Horvat thinks nothing of putting 210,000 matchsticks to use to create a life-size sculpture of a pianist playing a grand piano, complete with matchstick strings.