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- Title
The Mystery of Michelangelo Buonarroti's Goiter.
- Authors
Lazzeri, Davide; Lippi, Donatella; Castello, Manuel Francisco; Weisz, George M.
- Abstract
Whilst painting the vault of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo Buonarroti left an autographical sketch that revealed a prominence at the front of his hyper-extended neck. This image was recently diagnosed as goiter. The poet Michelangelo in a sonnet dated 1509 described himself as being afflicted by goiter similarly to the cats in the northern Italian Lombardy, a region with endemic goiter. Several narratives extended this sonnet into a pathological theory. The analyses of Michelangelo's works, however, his portraits and self-portraits, of poems and major biographies, have not indicated the likelihood of goiter. This investigation makes an attempt to assess the diagnosis on clinical as well as iconographical grounds.
- Subjects
SELF-portraits; ENDEMIC goiter; MICHELANGELO Buonarroti, 1475-1564
- Publication
Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2076-9172
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5041/RMMJ.10237