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To the Editor: In an intriguing letter, Livingstone and Conway (Sept. 16 issue)¹ propose that Rembrandt may have been stereoblind as a result of strabismus, as judged by the deviation of the pupils or the whites of the eyes in his self-portraits. We urge caution in making this diagnosis retrospectively from the artistic images, for several reasons. First, there are no "controls," such as might be derived from a survey of other artists with normal vision. Ocular deviation is suggested by the self-portraits of many artists; surely not all of them have had strabismus. Second, many artists take liberties with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Was Rembrandt Stereoblind?
Livingstone M. S., Conway B. R.
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N Engl J Med 2004; 351:1264-1265, Sep 16, 2004. Correspondence

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