A self-portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, sculptor, architect, illustrator and Florentine genius of the Renaissance, was found in one of his works. It is a sketch, made by him in 1525 for his best friend, the poet and intellectual Vittoria Colonna, according to a study, whose results were published in the journal Clinical Anatomy.
In the illustration, which is currently in the collection of the British Museum in London, there is a small figure standing in the area of the abdomen of the heroine. The figure, leaning forward at an acute angle, looks like the painter himself, drawing the portrait.