Cappelle Medicee

This guide to the Cappelle Medicee in Florence follows Michelangelo's return here as a fugitive in 1527, after Florentines briefly expelled the Medici and he sided with the new republic against the family he had long served, even helping design the city's defenses. It traces his flight into a hidden vault beneath the chapel he had built, where he passed the weeks sketching by candlelight while Medici soldiers hunted down the republic's defenders. Look up at Night and Day, Dawn and Dusk on the tombs above, the figures he was carving before he had to disappear.