The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

Recent studies show that some characters in the Sistine Chapel frescoes may show signs of illness: what does that mean?

It’s been half a millennium since Michelangelo finished painting the cavernous Sistine Chapel. Experts are still ... panel in the second section of the ceiling. This bit depicts people fleeing ...

The frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, painted on the ceiling and walls in the Pope’s official residence in Vatican City, may be one of the most extraordinary feats in art history. Intricate ...

The bare chest of a female figure in Michelangelo’s rendition of The Flood “shows features consistent with breast carcinoma,” according to new research.

Researchers have meticulously discovered signs of breast cancer in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. Researchers ...

The Sistine Chapel – Cappella Sistina in Italian – is known for the stunning frescoes that decorate its ceiling, which were painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. Despite their ...

An international team of experts has found that one of the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, enriched with ...

Nerlich of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, a team of international experts propose that Michelangelo's fresco "The ... painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1508.

Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of ...