Citation

García de Yébenes J, García de Yébenes P. Arch. Neurobiol. (Madr) 1991; 54(2): 37-40.

Vernacular Title

La distonía en la pintura de Matías Grünewald. El ergotismo epidémico en la baja edad media.

Affiliation

Servicio de Neurología, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, Madrid.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Fundacion Archivos de Neurobiologia)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1859225

Abstract

Mathias Grünewald painted in the Rhin vallee at the time of Albert Dürer and Lucas Cranach. In the first part of the XVI Century he painted for the antonin frïars at Issenheim, place devoted to the care of patients with "St Anthony's fire" or chronic ergotism. He despicted figures with abnormal postures simulating focal and generalized dystonia. It is likely that patients with chronic ergotism modelled for Grünewald and that his paintings are the first artistic representation of dystonia.

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