The picture, located above the entrance to the piano nobile to the Casa Buonarroti, is traditionally attributed to Marcello Venusti and is derived from the portrait of Michelangelo painted by Jacopino del Conte. Unlike the pieces on show in the adjoining room, this painting is not on deposit from the Florentine Galleries, but has been part of the Buonarroti family collections for centuries: in fact it is mentioned in an inventory of 1799, which also states that it was located in the building's seventeenthcentury rooms. It is worth mentioning the lavish baroque frame, the work of a seventeenthcentury Florentine craftsman.

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