Michelangelo’s ‘The Flood’ seems to depict a woman with breast cancer
A woman in “The Flood” shows signs of breast cancer, such as lumps
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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.
Researchers have previously identified signs of breast cancer – including swelling and skin retraction – in his sculpture Night, dated around 1526 to 1533.
Now, Raffaella Bianucci at the University of Paris-Saclay in France and her colleagues…
