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

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 ...

"I could not believe the sheer number of people that were in the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel. Alessia was incredible ... skipping the long lines outside to see Michelangelo’s famous Pieta, St.

Known as the "stanza segreta," or secret room, it sheltered Michelangelo in 1530 as he hid from the powerful Medici family after joining a failed republican revolt.

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.

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

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 ...