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.
Production designer Suzie Davies tells IndieWire about blending Vatican grandeur with mundane modernity in Edward Berger's ...
A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...
Michelangelo’s iconic Sistine Chapel painting may depict woman with breast cancer - ‘It tells us something interesting about ...
The fact modern doctors can recognize it reveals Michelangelo’s extraordinary capacity for and dedication to anatomical accuracy.
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 ...
In the hallowed halls of the Sistine Chapel, a subtle and unexpected mystery might be hiding above millions of heads. Experts suggest that Michelangelo, famed for his detailed depictions of the human ...
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.
Many are familiar with the final moments of a conclave, when the white smoke famously rises from a chimney just outside the ...
Michelangelo was no stranger to death and disease. Unlike many contemporary artists who honed their craft by studying living ...
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 ...