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 ...

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

In 1504, three huge figures of the Renaissance era found themselves in Florence, then a city in turmoil. A fascinating new ...

Experts suggest that Michelangelo, famed for his detailed depictions of the human form, may have included something ...

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

A hidden detail in Michelangelo’s "The Flood" may reveal a woman with breast cancer, adding a shocking twist to the iconic Sistine Chapel masterpiece.

Renaissance artist’s fresco on Sistine Chapel ceiling appears to feature woman with symptoms of disease, researchers claim ...

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

A team of researchers has spotted signs on a bare-chested woman in the painting on the biblical flood in the Sisten Chapel that appear to show had breast cancer ...

Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo, c 1504-05 Credit ... The National Gallery Photographic Department Visitors are even regaled with ...

The Royal Academy's new exhibition spotlights the fierce rivalry and mutual influence between Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci ...