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Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel may show woman with breast cancer: study
New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a woman battling breast cancer into ...
Michelangelo ‘painted woman with breast cancer’
Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of ...
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Curator Virginia Brilliant On the Old Master Women History Chose to Forget
When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men—most often Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Vermeer. But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all ...
Rare Renaissance painting acquired by FAMSF reminds us why permanent collections deserve our attention
In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery, a new 400-year-old acquisition sparkles with a vibrancy belying its age. San Francisco is the new home to Lavinia Fontana’s 400-year-old painted “Portrait ...
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Michelangelo May Have Painted An Unusual Cancer Case In The Sistine Chapel
The fact modern doctors can recognize it reveals Michelangelo’s extraordinary capacity for and dedication to anatomical accuracy.
A Renaissance Diagnosis? Researchers think Michelangelo hid one of the earliest depictions of breast cancer in the Sistine Chapel
One of art history’s greatest masterpieces might also be one of the earliest visual records of this disease. A study proposes ...