Did Michelangelo Paint A Woman With Breast Cancer?

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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.

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