Author: Amanda B. Keener / Source: Science News
If Leonardo da Vinci had a good eye doctor, he might not have become such a great artist.
At least that’s what an analysis of paintings and sculptures believed to be modeled after da Vinci suggests.Visual neuroscientist Christopher Tyler of the City University of London examined six pieces of art, including Salvator Mundi and Vitruvian Man. Five of the pieces depict an eye misalignment consistent with a disorder called exotropia that can interfere with three-dimensional vision, Tyler reports online October 18 in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Exotropia, in which one eye turns slightly outward, is one of several eye disorders collectively called strabismus. Today, strabismus, which affects 4 percent…
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