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

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

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

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

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

Michelangelo was not merely a giant of the Renaissance. He was also one of the era's most controversial personalities. Art ...

The Renaissance rivals Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael vied for the attention of wealthy Italian patrons during the early ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...