Michelangelo appears to have depicted a woman with breast cancer in his fresco The Flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which may have been a message on the inevitability of death.

Nerlich, Andreas G. et al. (2024) The Breast In the case of the blue-cloaked woman in “The Flood,” Michelangelo’s choice to paint the woman with breast cancer “is linked to the concept of ...

Researchers from the University of Paris-Saclay have identified signs of breast cancer in a woman featured in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterpiece, 'The Flood'. This includes a deformed ...

Michelangelo was an expert painter ... featured in another of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco, 'The Flood'. This includes a deformed nipple and a slight bulge in her breast, which ...

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

Michelangelo begins by painting the flood, and that is why that is the strangest of the panels. It's crowded, the figures are too small and it's really difficult to read, but as he moves forward ...

“The Flood,” which depicts the Genesis passages surrounding Noah’s Ark on its ceiling. Michelangelo had spent four years from 1508 to 1512 mainly working on the legendary ceiling and walls ...