"Why Rembrandt and da Vinci may have painted" Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Jan 2020 2:54 p.m. PST |
…themselves with skewed eyes "A strongly dominant eye, not an eye disorder, may explain why Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt van Rijn painted themselves with misaligned eyes. Previous research suggested that the famous artists may have had a literal artist's eye — an eye disorder called exotropia in which one eye turns outward. Exotropia makes it harder for the brain to use input from both eyes to see in 3-D, so it must rely on 2-D cues to see depth. This gives people with the disorder a "flattened" view of the world, which could give artists who work on flat surfaces like canvas an advantage. But using trigonometry and photographs of people looking into a mirror, David Guyton, an ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins University, and his colleague Ahmed Shakarchi, conclude that the artists could have had eyes that faced straight ahead after all. The researchers published their analysis November 27 in JAMA Ophthalmology…"
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| Zephyr1 | 02 Jan 2020 3:50 p.m. PST |
So they had crossed eyes like Ben Turpin..? ;-) |
| Tango01 | 03 Jan 2020 1:07 p.m. PST |
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