“The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education…”
Peter Greenaway
Over the past few decades I have been fortunate enough to have had a couple of research papers published in the Breast . This is a mid impact journal with a strong clinical edge. A recent Breast article has been filled with images of the Sistine Chapel. This paper deal with the field of Iconodiagnosis, the identification of actual medical disorders depicted in the figures of art. The image in question here is from Michelangelo’s Flood depiction fresco (1508-1509), in the second span of the Chapel’s ceiling. The woman seen with a blue headdress has been identified as having at least two right breast masses along with a retracted and deformed nipple areolar complex. The suggested diagnosis is a case of T4b, locally advanced breast cancer. Critics have countered that in his art ,Michelangelo often rendered woman’s breasts with asymmetrical, unnatural shapes and that a misdiagnosis has been made. #notconvincedwithoutanmri #letsmakelemonade
Pen Paint and Scalpel 