Michelangelo's Icons

On display in this room are several portraits, on loan from the Florentine Galleries, which, though executed in different periods, ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, all derive from the prototype of the famous portrait of the artist painted in Rome around 1535 by the Florentine Jacopino del Conte (1510-98). The finest example is the panel located above the showcase. This painting was donated to the Galleria degli Uffizi by the Strozzi family in 1771, when it was considered a self portrait by Michelangelo. Immediately afterward, however, the authorship of Michelangelo was rejected. Nowadays historians ascribe it directly to the workshop of Jacopino del Conte.

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