It may not be the Sistine Chapel, but this small sanctuary also may be filled with Michelangelo’s works of art.
Tourists will soon be able to visit a previously hidden room in Florence’s Medici Chapel, where sketches on the walls have been attributed by some experts to the famed artist.
The formerly secret space was discovered in 1975 when officials were searching for an additional exit to accommodate the influx of visitors. Dal Poggetto believed Michelangelo sat in the small space to hide from “the wrath of Pope Clement VII” for supporting a short-lived republic that overthrew the Medici family around 1527.“The major scholars of Michelangelo’s drawings dismissed the attributions” upon discovery, D’Agostino explained.
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