New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a woman battling breast cancer into ...

In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” Jill Burke dispels any misplaced ... Ms. Brothers is a professor of art and architecture at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da ...

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 ...

The collagist layers contemporary couture atop portraits of real Renaissance women to create digital art that contradicts today’s social media-centric consumerist model. In Worrall’s world of ...

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.

One of art history’s greatest masterpieces might also be one of the earliest visual records of this disease. A study proposes ...