Florence is home to a lot of street art. Some of it is very recent. Some of it has been around for centuries.
About 500 years ago, a local artist etched the image of a man on the wall of the Palazzo Vecchio (image below).
According to Atlas Obscura, there are a few legends about the origin of the etching. "One theory states that [the artist] carved the face on a dare and even etched it in the stone with his back-turned. Others say that the artist was regularly caught in conversation with a notorious bore and one day carved the chatty man’s likeness into the wall simply to pass the time. Still another version of the story states that [the artist] witnessed an execution in the square an the face is that of the man on death row."
Can you guess who etched the face?
The image is known today as L'importuno di Michelangelo.
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