Casa Buonarroti
House-turned-shrine holding the sculptor's teenage marble reliefs and a gallery of biographical baroque paintings
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Casa Buonarroti in Florence tells the story of Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, born three years after his famous great-uncle died, who spent his life turning a modest family house into a shrine to an ancestor he never met. You'll hear how the property passed through neglect after Michelangelo's own death, until the Younger rebuilt it around 1612 and filled its rooms with painters, including Artemisia Gentileschi, telling his great-uncle's life in fresco. The guide also leads into a quieter room holding marble work Michelangelo carved as a teenager, barely past his apprenticeship.
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