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

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

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

Production designer Suzie Davies tells IndieWire about blending Vatican grandeur with mundane modernity in Edward Berger's ...

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

Led by forensic pathologist Andreas G. Nerlich of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, a team of international experts propose that Michelangelo's fresco "The Flood" in the Sistine Chapel portrays ...

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.

Enter Rome’s Cinecitta studios – which is no stranger to housing re-creations. Davies found incomplete flat-packed scenery from a previous production. “It was packed down into flats which were eight ...

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.

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

It’s no secret that the Vatican prohibits filming inside the Sistine Chapel, and the headquarters of the Catholic Church was not going to make exceptions for Edward Berger‘s “Conclave.” ...

Researchers from the University of Paris-Saclay have identified signs of breast cancer in a woman featured in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterpiece, 'The Flood'. This includes a deformed ...