A visual disorder has helped Leonardo da Vinci to create 3-dimensional shapes in famous paintings and collections. This is the final result of the latest study of Italian genius.
Professor Christopher Tyler from London University says Da Vinci was suffering from strabismus. Tyler made the discovery by studying the eyes of six artist masterpieces thought to be portraits or self-portraits, including works such as Vitruvian Man and Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting of all time. Based on the measurements made, Da Vinci enjoyed a stereoscopic vision (two-eye visibility enabling deep perception) and monocular (using one eye to interpret three-dimensional images on a flat or two-dimensional canvas.
"Many artists, from Picasso's Rembrandt, are thought to have had strabism. Da Vinci likewise, "says the professor.
Exactly it is said that Da Vinci had exotropi, a kind of strabism that affects only 1% of the world. This condition, in contrast to its normal look in the other eye, helped to develop a deeper understanding of the three-dimensional objects, which has made most of Da Vinci's works have perfect lightness.
