Dedicated to Michelangelo and to the Florentines. Opposite the entrance we can admire the celebrated roundel in which is painted the Holy Family by Michelangelo painted for the marriage of Agnolo Doni to Maddalena Strozzi between 1504 and 1505. This is a rare and prestigious work, in spiral form, where, in a barely suggested landscape, the titanic artist represented powerful, athletic figures of plastic nudes foreshadowing the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. The work is rendered powerfully dramatic by the figures in the foreground. The splendid frame with the arms of the arms of the Doni family was carried out by the carver Domenico del Tasso to a design, it would seem, by Michelangelo.
With this fundamental work Michelangelo became the initiator of a "manner" which was to last for an entire century. The room contains works by Rosso Fiorentino and other artists, called "mannerists", because they were followers of the "manner" of the great masters, Michelangelo in particular. There are also displayed the works of the Spainiard Berruguete, who was in Italy to study the brillant Florentine painters in this style.
Next to the entrance is the famous Visitation by Albertinelli (1503) exhibited here with other selected works executed possibly in the period in which he was the friend and collaborator of Fra' Bartolomeo. A large, solemn work rendered with profound humanity, wich influenced Raphael's work during his Florentine period. In the same room: Joseph presenting his Father and Brothers to the Pharoah, by Granacci; a portrait of Perugino attributed to Raphael, his pupil. Another work by a "mannerist" Rosso Fiorentino, very close to Michelangelo, is the painting on board Moses defends the Daughters of Jetrus, with acute dramatic sense and vigorous emphasis.
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