Every year, millions of visitors flock to the Sistine Chapel to admire the frescoes painted by Michelangelo during the Renaissance. The frescoes on the ceiling of the building depict various scenes ...

Michelangelo was no stranger to death and disease. Unlike many contemporary artists who honed their craft by studying living ...

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

Michelangelo’s iconic Sistine Chapel painting may depict woman with breast cancer - ‘It tells us something interesting about ...

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

The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to include women with breast cancer in some of his pieces ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

exploring the city through the seminal works of art that were made, commissioned or displayed at the high point of the Italian Renaissance – the year 1504. It was a moment when three of the world’s ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical ... The team of art-history and medical experts found that the Florentine ...