A calculated flaw in perfection. New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a ...

The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum ...

A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...

A deep dive into two London shows bringing together key works of the movement, and a spectacular series of tapestries ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

The drawings, sketches and cartoons in this sensational exhibition at the King's Gallery provide a glimpse behind the scenes ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

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.

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.

Renaissance artist’s fresco on Sistine Chapel ceiling appears to feature woman with symptoms of disease, researchers claim ...

In 1504, three huge figures of the Renaissance era found themselves in Florence, then a city in turmoil. A fascinating new ...