Did you know Leonardo Da Vinci had strabismus?

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Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci had strabismus?

Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci had a form of strabismus that could have facilitated his artistic work?

Examination of 6 likely portraits and self-portraits of da Vinci shows that most paintings exhibit a consistent exotropic strabismus angle of −10.3°.

The presence of exotropia, particularly if it was intermittent, may have contributed to da Vinci’s exceptional ability to capture space on the flat canvas.

In people with strabismus, the eyes don’t align normally when the person is looking ahead. One or both of the eyes turns slightly inward or outward, off center.

Rembrandt and Picasso are artists who are also believed to have had the condition.

Leonardo da Vinci had intermittent exotropia with the resulting ability to switch to monocular vision, which would perhaps explain his great ability for depicting the 3-dimensional solidity of faces and objects in the world and the distant depth-recession of mountainous scenes.

Researchers feel Leonardo da Vinci had a type of strabismus called intermittent exotropia; this results in one eye being directed outward at least some of the time. His exceptional realism applied to a flat surface could certainly be the result of him seeing in two-dimensions some of the time. His outstanding attention to details, perspective and depth perception are explained by his condition.

Mona Lisa’s look is not focused, and she suffered from strabismus too.

Diagnosing an eye condition from art is challenging and still…

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