Michelangelo's secret room

By Chiara Sgaravatti

15 December 2022

Did you know that Michelangelo had a secret room inside Florence Cappelle Medicee?

It was just 2x7 meters with one window; here he have create a lot of drawings on his old works and new projects, all of them were discovered in 1975 by Paolo del Poggetto during some refurbishment works.

The room was never been opened to the public, but from 2020 the world can see this amazing secret and the works that Michelangelo did during his prisonery for surviving at Medici's revenge.

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