Experts discover hidden medical detail in Michelangelo’s ‘The Flood’ painting. See it
The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
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Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel may show woman with breast cancer: study
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Michelangelo’s secret ‘code’: Did the master conceal a medical treatise in his artworks?
A new study by the University of Paris-Saclay suggests that the scene of ‘The Flood’ in the Sistine Chapel frescoes depicts a ...
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Experts discover hidden medical detail in Michelangelo’s ‘The Flood’ painting. See it
Now, experts have discovered Michelangelo’s attention to anatomical detail may have captured centuries-old cases of breast cancer. “In the second span of the vault, the first pictorial scene w ...