Portraits of friar Bene and friar Leonardo Buonarroti

The oval, carried out to celebrate the illustrious members of the Buonarroti’s family in the room of night and day, shows two friars of the family. Friar Bene was a predicator and he was remembered for his fervent working activity, also in old age; friar Leonardo, Michelangelo’s brother, followed the Savonarola’s doctrine and donned the Dominican habit at the convent of S. Caterina in Pistoia.