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[Iconodiagnosis, the art of semiology].
Rev Prat
November 2024
Laboratoire Anthropologie, Archéologie, Biologie (LAAB), UFR Simone-Veil - santé (UVSQ), Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France.
Did Michelangelo paint a young adult woman with breast cancer in "The Flood" (Sistine Chapel, Rome)?
Breast
December 2024
Laboratory Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology (LAAB), Paris-Saclay University, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France. Electronic address:
The Flood is the first pictorial scene that Michelangelo Buonarroti painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. On the right side of the fresco a woman with abnormal breast morphology is presented and the nature of her disease is considered using the Guidelines for Iconodiagnosis. A team of experts covering art history, art expertise, medicine, genetics, and pathology undertook the process and concluded that the pathology shown is probably breast cancer, most likely linked to the symbolic significance of an inevitable death as expressed in the Book of Genesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn iconodiagnosis for Joos Vijd, as painted by the van Eycks in the Ghent Altarpiece.
Neurol Sci
July 2024
Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France.
The Ghent Altarpiece, a jewel of Gothic art painted by the van Eyck brothers in the fifteenth century, is particularly noteworthy for its use of an innovative dilution of oil, giving it a realistic scope that is particularly conducive to iconodiagnostic hypotheses. For the first time in the literature, we are taking a medical look at this masterpiece, and more specifically at the representation of its patron, whose identity is well known: Joos Vijd, a powerful notable from the town of Ghent, in modern-day Belgium. A vascular turgidity of the temporal artery, which can be suggestive of temporal arteritis, Hertoghe's sign and a slight ear crease were observed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLack of hemochromatosis in Saint Augustine in his studio by Sandro Botticelli.
J Endocrinol Invest
September 2024
Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, Helsinki University Hospital & University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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