Until now, the room, containing a number of charcoal drawings attributed to the Renaissance master, has been opened to the public only sporadically.
The alleged hideout was discovered in 1975 after the then director of the Medici Chapels Museum in the Basilica of San Lorenzo instructed a restorer to carry out cleaning tests in a narrow corridor beneath an apse.
The director theorised that Michelangelo sought refuge here from the fury of the Medici, Pope Clement VII, after he acted as supervisor of the city’s fortifications for the short-lived republican government (1527-30).
As of November 15, the room will be open on an experimental basis to up to four visitors at a time on prior booking until March 30, 2024.
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