The legend tells that this “hidden portrait” was carved by Michelangelo Buonarroti, who, when he used to walk between the Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi Gallery, was regularly stopped by a person who told him an usual history about his financial failures and about the credit that he had towards Buonarroti and that he could not pay. In one of these occasions Michelangelo, worktools hand, and angered by this man, while the man was speaking, he turned round and carved his profile in the stones of Palazzo Vecchio.
This carving can be seen on the righthand side of the main entrance to the Palazzo.
This carving can be seen on the righthand side of the main entrance to the Palazzo.