Valerio Marucelli (15 ottobre 1563 – 1627) 

• Was an Italian painter.
• A Baroque painter of the Tuscan school, he became famous at the Medici court for his copies, in original size or in miniature, of works by Raphael or Michelangelo Buonarroti.
• He also painted devotional paintings, such as Annunziate or Maternity, which the Grand Dukes of Tuscany sent as gifts to princes and rulers.
• In the Uffizi deposits there is his large-scale, commemorative work, Margaret of Austria Receives the Ambassadors of the Spanish Empire in Valencia, oil on canvas, 207x264 cm.

• Valerio Marucelli's work, entitled Michelangelo received by Doge Andrea Gritti and painted between 1616 and 1618, represents an episode that really happened in Venice, when Michelangelo shook hands with Doge Andrea Gritti, in front of representatives of the Venetian aristocracy.

• The canvas was painted to adorn the Gallery of Casa Buonarroti - which his great-grandson Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger had decorated by artists then active and celebrated in Florence - and was positioned as an overdoor.

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