A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...

An international team of experts has discovered that one of the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, adorned with ...

“It tells us something interesting about Michelangelo,” Dr Arnold-Foster said. “Did he know that it was breast cancer that he was painting? Was it a deliberate choice that has some kind of ...

where art is studied through a medical lens to supplement understanding of health issues at the time. Researchers have ...

Like the artists who created the many mosaics of Mary at the Church of the Annunciation, Michelangelo was of his time and place, and that cultural context is reflected in his painting on the ...

The fact modern doctors can recognize it reveals Michelangelo’s extraordinary capacity for and dedication to anatomical accuracy.

You no longer need a plane ticket to Italy to see Michelangelo’s masterpiece at ... the world’s leading source of fine art imagery. Those details are replicated by a special printing technique ...

Yet, as the Royal Academy’s ­exhibition, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c 1504, reminds us, rivalry is hardwired into art history. (The same jostling trium­virate will also be ...

A turn of the head then reveals how he put this lesson to good use in The Bridgewater Madonna, an oil painting of the Virgin and Child that recasts Michelangelo’s motif. In the second gallery ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers. The team ...