Michelangelo’s Moses came on the heels of his David ... it is absolutely astonishing that the hand of an artist could have properly executed something so sublime and admirable in a brief ...

with a bowl-like object in his hand, close to his face. Moses, the man who was the epitome of power and authority, gives off the same energy from his sculpture by Michelangelo. It is part of the ...

After five years of restoration, Michelangelo's nearly 500-year-old sculpture of Moses is looking as good as new. Restorers in the Italian capital have been quietly working away on the majestic ...

The paintings display that Michelangelo's small joints in his left hand underwent degenerative changes that commonly result from arthritis. When they looked at earlier portraits, the artist's ...

Michelangelo suffered from arthritis in his later years, with doctors studying portraits of the sculptor and painter finding deformities in the joints of his left hand consistent with osteoarthritis.

Italian scientists believe that extensive hammering and chiselling carried out by Michelangelo when creating masterpieces such as David was responsible for leaving his hands deformed in later life.