The researchers believe the representation of breast cancer may have been a message on the inevitability of death. 'Michelangelo's depiction in "The Flood" suggests characteristics of breast ...

Some church observers sneered that the artist made her look too youthful to have a son who was 33 years old, as Jesus was believed to be at his death. Michelangelo defended this choice to his ...

As his career escalated, Michelangelo became a hard-nosed businessman and by the time of his death had become one of the wealthiest men in Italy. In 1507 his friend, Agnolo Doni, ordered a ...

For centuries, the Sistine Chapel frescoes were characterized by muted colors and dark shadows. Some people even assumed that Michelangelo, who saw himself as a sculptor rather than a painter, was ...

The tomb, commissioned by Julius in 1505 for St. Peter’s Basilica and scarcely begun by the time of the pope’s death in 1513, proved to be Michelangelo’s 40-year albatross. We think of ...