Michelangelo bought this house for his family, though he barely lived here himself. His nephew and later descendants turned it into a tribute, with rooms full of paintings about his life, all paid for out of the earnings his name could bring in.
The reason to go in hangs on the first floor: two marble reliefs he carved as a teenager, while he was still in the garden by where this walk began. One shows a , carved flat and quiet in the manner of , and the other where you can already see everything he would later do with bodies in motion.
He was around sixteen when he made them, and he kept them with him his whole life while he sold or gave away almost everything else.
The museum needs a ticket and it is smaller than the big ones, so half an hour is plenty.
lies at the end of this street.
Sources. Story: Casa Buonarroti, Firenze (Madonna della Scala, Battaglia dei Centauri, storia della casa); Treccani (Michelangelo Buonarroti, opere giovanili) Photos: Michelangelo, Madonna della Scala, Casa Buonarroti, via Wikimedia Commons, photo Sailko, CC BY 3.0
