Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

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

Now, experts have discovered Michelangelo’s attention to anatomical detail may have captured centuries-old cases of breast cancer. “In the second span of the vault, the first pictorial scene was ‘The ...

“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 ...

Michelangelo began painting figures in the Sistine Chapel in 1508, after being ordered to do so by Pope Julius II. The key theme is the story of the Genesis in the Old Testament, with 'The Flood ...

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. The team ...

The research team said it formed the view of Michelangelo’s depiction after comparing breasts in his other paintings and sculptures. “The result of our observation indicates that Michelangelo ...

Stockholm’s subway system is truly one of a kind. One hundred stations, each with unique art on its platform, walls, or waiting hall. Since 1957 artists have played a key role when new stations have ...

In three visits to London between 1899 and 1901, the French Impressionist, then approaching 60 years of age, embarked upon one of the most ambitious series of penetrating paintings ever undertaken ...

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding the idea of what painting can be. By Jane L. Levere This article is ...