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

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

Famed artist Michelangelo Buonarroti began work on the daunting project ... providing physical symptoms and anatomical details for centuries-old conditions and diseases that may be hard to study.

A new study by the University of Paris-Saclay suggests that the scene of ‘The Flood’ in the Sistine Chapel frescoes depicts a ...

A calculated flaw in perfection. New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a ...

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

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

For example, did you know that Michelangelo's David has heart-shaped pupils? Scroll down and find more fascinating details about the most famous sculptures in art history! Bored Panda reached out ...

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