In 2000, a New England Journal of Medicine entry said his marble statue “Night” holds a “strong possibility that Michelangelo intentionally showed a woman with disease and that he may have ...

Recent studies show that some characters in the Sistine Chapel frescoes may show signs of illness: what does that mean?

The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to include women with breast cancer in some of his pieces ...