The “Mona Lisa,” painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century, is undoubtedly one of the most famous artworks in ...
New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a woman battling breast cancer into ...
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 ...
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 ...
A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...
Renaissance artist’s fresco on Sistine Chapel ceiling appears to feature woman with symptoms of disease, researchers claim ...
A team of researchers has spotted signs on a bare-chested woman in the painting on the biblical flood in the Sisten Chapel that appear to show had breast cancer ...