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

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

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings are considered one of the most ‘supreme masterpieces ... t been airlifted over from Rome, but the famous ceiling paintings have been reproduced ...

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

Michelangelo's David is among the most famous pieces of Renaissance artwork and remains a well-known symbol of Italy. More than 1.4 million people visit the sculpture annually at Florence's ...

That fleshy abundance became a signature trait of her paintings, their most noticed quality when they ... Saville’s nudes, making her famous for her forthright abandonment of old-fashioned ...

Michelangelo appears to have depicted a woman with breast cancer in his fresco The Flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which may have been a message on the inevitability of death.

He was 23 years Michelangelo’s senior, and, like the younger artist, had recently returned to Florence. At the time, Leonardo was working on his own masterpiece, the “Portrait of Lisa ...

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 ...