Frenk S

Language: Spanish
References: 4
Page: 259-260
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ABSTRACT

Caravaggio´s painting “Amore dormiente” is subjected to a diagnostic exercise. Our impression has been that of a toddler with severe rickets. It has been challenged by others, who assert a diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. A semiotic analysis of the physical features of the model is attempted.

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3. Espinel CH. Caravaggio´s “Il amore dormiente”: a sleeping Cupid with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Lancet 1994; 344:1750-2

4. Frenk S, Faure-Fontenla MA. Rachitis, not arthritis, in Caravaggio´s sleeping child: Lancet 1995;345:801.