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Title: | The Mystery of Michelangelo Buonarotti's Goiter | Contributor(s): | Lazzeri, Davide (author); Lippi, Donatella (author); Castello, Manuel (author); Weisz, George M (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.5041/RMMJ.10237![]() |
Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19279 | Open Access Link: | http://www.rmmj.org.il/userimages/526/0/PublishFiles/526Article.pdf![]() |
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. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 7(1), p. 1-5 | Publisher: | Rambam Health Care Campus | Place of Publication: | Israel | ISSN: | 2076-9172 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430308 European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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