A secret room where the artist Michelangelo is said to have hidden for a period of months will soon be open to the public. On its walls: sketches said to have been made by the master during his self-imposed captivity. Host Carol Hills speaks with William Wallace, a professor of art history at Washington University in St Louis, about this room which opens Nov. 15 in the Medici Chapels Museum in Florence.
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