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 ...

Famed artist Michelangelo Buonarroti began work on the daunting project in 1508 by order of Pope Julius II, intending to only paint the 12 Apostles. Instead, four years later, more than 300 ...

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

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The research team said it formed the view of Michelangelo’s depiction after comparing breasts in his other paintings and ...

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.