More information: D. Lazzeri et al. Osteoarthritis in the hands of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2016). DOI: 10.1177/0141076816630502 Journal information ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis ... with the terms of said covenant (the Ten Commandments) in hand. Whatever the case, Jerome’s translation (a.k.a. the Vulgate ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.