Genetic disorders in portraits

✍ Scribed by Emery, Alan E.H.

• Book ID: 102646977
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 552 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-7299
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19961218)66:3<334::aid-ajmg17>3.0.co;2-n

✦ Synopsis

Many artists have depicted genetic disorders in portrait paintings. In some instances such disorders can be identified in self-portraits, most notably the tetralogy of Fallot in the Dutch painter Dick Ket, or in portraits of the famous, such as the Habsburg jaw in the Emperor Charles V. But it is in other portraits that most examples can be found, such as the different types of dwarfism depicted by Velazquez. A table listing over 70 examples is provided.