Tourists will soon be able to visit a previously hidden room in Florence’s Medici Chapel, where sketches on the walls have been attributed by some experts to the famed artist.

Art History A Secret Room in a 16th-Century Italian Chapel, Where Michelangelo Hid—and Drew—for Months, Opens to the Public. Michelangelo is believed to have made the rarely seen drawings ...

Delicate charcoal drawings that some experts have attributed to Michelangelo are seen on the walls of a room used to store coal until 1955 inside Florence's Medici Chapel, in central Italy ...

The trapdoor leading to a room with delicate charcoal drawings on the walls that some experts have attributed to Michelangelo is seen inside Florence's Medici Chapel, in central Italy, Tuesday ...

Florence, Italy — In 1975, Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Medici Chapels museum in Florence, stumbled upon a Renaissance treasure. While searching for a new way for tourists to exit ...

The secret room — a tiny 33-by-10 feet space — was discovered in 1975, when officials were searching for a new exit from the Medici Chapel to accommodate increasing visitors.

The tiny space sits beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence, where Michelangelo sculpted intricate tombs for members of the Medici family behind the church of San Lorenzo in the Sagrestia Nuova, ...

The secret room — a tiny 10-by-3 meters (33-by-10 feet) space — was discovered in 1975, when officials were searching for a new exit from the Medici Chapel to accommodate increasing visitors.

Visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-secret space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed to Michelangelo.

Visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-secret space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed to Michelangelo.

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 ...