1/11 A little distraction for Friday. A talk I started working on 20 years ago and then gave up on. Encouraged to return to it by @OSheaLaos. Illness found in paintings. Please add your own finds!
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2/11 The one that got me started on this. Rhinophyma. Actually, the picture on the Wikipedia page for the condition! 
3/11 Munch is a pro at depicting psychic distress. He seems to be pretty good at the interplay between the physical and psychological too. This one of congenital syphilis might keep you up.
4/11 Just found this yesterday. Check out the Hutchinson’s teeth on the allegorical syphilis!
5/11 There are innumerable good goiters in art. Modigliani is one of my favorites.
6/11 Look at that hand. Some sort of inflammatory arthritis.
7/11 Crazy article about this one (IMAJ 3: 864-871, 2001) that tries to identify all the diseases (Pott’s, hyperostosis vertebralis, post-infectious osteomyelitis…)
8/11 Unfortunately can’t find a good reproduction of this. Many have written that the bishop has scleroderma (telangiectases, tight skin, swollen fingers).
9/11 Portrait of Michelangelo himself showing off some serious hand OA.
10/11 Should have just been called, "Derm Clinic."
11/11 Much too much to say about this. An amazing contemporary artist. Just spend the whole weekend with her website. sallyfamacochrane.com
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