Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel, where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have.
Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel, where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed by some experts to Michelangelo. The secret room—a 10-by-33-foot space—was discovered in 1975, when officials were searching for a new exit from the Medici Chapel to accommodate increasing visitors. The museum’s then-director, Paolo Dal Poggetto, «firmly believed that they were by Michelangelo,'» says the current director, Paola D’Agostino.
