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Peter Paul Rubens😃
Flemish 1577-1640 | Diplomat and spy | Master of movement, colors, and sensuality | Greatest baroque painter of 17th century
"My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings." Rubens
Neurology is everywhere!🦋🦋🦋
Peter Paul Rubens😃
Flemish 1577-1640 | Diplomat and spy | Master of movement, colors, and sensuality | Greatest baroque painter of 17th century
"My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings." Rubens
Neurology is everywhere!🦋🦋🦋
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Marie de' Medici Cycle (1621)
🧐Twenty four paintings by Rubens commissioned by Marie de' Medici (Widow Henry IV of France)
🧐Depicting Marie's struggles and triumphs in life
Marie de' Medici Cycle (1621)
🧐Twenty four paintings by Rubens commissioned by Marie de' Medici (Widow Henry IV of France)
🧐Depicting Marie's struggles and triumphs in life
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The Three Graces (1666)
🤓Daughters of Zeus
😬Rubenesque physique (sensual, opulent, voluptuous)
Not sure I can use "Rubenesque physique" on a H&P🤔🤓
The Three Graces (1666)
🤓Daughters of Zeus
😬Rubenesque physique (sensual, opulent, voluptuous)
Not sure I can use "Rubenesque physique" on a H&P🤔🤓
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The Hippopotamus Hunt (1615)
🧐A depiction of microcephaly, I think (man with a knife)
The Hippopotamus Hunt (1615)
🧐A depiction of microcephaly, I think (man with a knife)
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Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1618)
🧐Possesed mand and woman on the floor
🤓Ictal epileptiform strabism
Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1618)
🧐Possesed mand and woman on the floor
🤓Ictal epileptiform strabism
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Ictal strabism😯
🧐Rare, assoc/ parox nystagmus
🧐Abnormal cortical activation: version/vergence (parietal eye fields, dorsolateral frontal), smooth pursuit (middle temporal), contralateral eye fields (inf/medial frontal lobe)
DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108027
Ictal strabism😯
🧐Rare, assoc/ parox nystagmus
🧐Abnormal cortical activation: version/vergence (parietal eye fields, dorsolateral frontal), smooth pursuit (middle temporal), contralateral eye fields (inf/medial frontal lobe)
DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108027
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Samson and Dalilah (1609)
🤓Samson, betrayed by rebel Dalilah-> cuts Samson's hair, loss of strength. Motor 5/5 post hair re-growth
✅Sudden onset-reversible motor weakness: GBS vs. Porphyria vs. Polymyositis vs. MG: autoimmune hair loss
Poor Dalilah, incriminated unjustly!
Samson and Dalilah (1609)
🤓Samson, betrayed by rebel Dalilah-> cuts Samson's hair, loss of strength. Motor 5/5 post hair re-growth
✅Sudden onset-reversible motor weakness: GBS vs. Porphyria vs. Polymyositis vs. MG: autoimmune hair loss
Poor Dalilah, incriminated unjustly!
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Hector's Death
😯Achilles thrust in his lance between neck and thorax
✅Injure cervical vascular bundle
🧐Did not disrupt the trachea. Hector said his last words: "Spare my body! let my parents ransom it, and let me receive funeral rites from the sons and daughter of Troy."
Hector's Death
😯Achilles thrust in his lance between neck and thorax
✅Injure cervical vascular bundle
🧐Did not disrupt the trachea. Hector said his last words: "Spare my body! let my parents ransom it, and let me receive funeral rites from the sons and daughter of Troy."
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Transfiguration (1604)
🧐Epileptic boy in the arms of his father
🧐Rubens, a great master of drama. Found great interest in the human drama of convulsions.
Transfiguration (1604)
🧐Epileptic boy in the arms of his father
🧐Rubens, a great master of drama. Found great interest in the human drama of convulsions.
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King Phillip IV of Spain (1628)
🧐Possible Fragile X syndrome
✅Face is long and narrow, prognathism (protruding mandible), long ears, strabism, sunken eyes.
King Phillip IV of Spain (1628)
🧐Possible Fragile X syndrome
✅Face is long and narrow, prognathism (protruding mandible), long ears, strabism, sunken eyes.
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Perseus liberating Andromeda (1639)
😯After killing Medusa, he liberated Andromeda while flying with his winged sandals. Now their love is eternal as constellations in the sky.😍
Perseus liberating Andromeda (1639)
😯After killing Medusa, he liberated Andromeda while flying with his winged sandals. Now their love is eternal as constellations in the sky.😍
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Portrait of Wladyslaw IV of Poland (1620)
😬Right 6th palsy
Portrait of Wladyslaw IV of Poland (1620)
😬Right 6th palsy
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Jupiter and Callisto (1613)
🧐Jupiter (Zeus) seduced the nymph Callisto. Here we see Zeus securing her airway with head tilt-chin lift maneuver 😬🤔
Jupiter and Callisto (1613)
🧐Jupiter (Zeus) seduced the nymph Callisto. Here we see Zeus securing her airway with head tilt-chin lift maneuver 😬🤔
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The Massacre of the Innocents
🧐Biblical tale of Roman soldiers executing male newborns in Bethlehem.
😳Most expensive Old Master painting ever sold: £49.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in 2002.🤯🤯
The Massacre of the Innocents
🧐Biblical tale of Roman soldiers executing male newborns in Bethlehem.
😳Most expensive Old Master painting ever sold: £49.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in 2002.🤯🤯
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Old woman and boy with candles (1616)
🤔Peripheral sensory neuropathy (no pain with fire)
Old woman and boy with candles (1616)
🤔Peripheral sensory neuropathy (no pain with fire)
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"I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration. " Rubens
Neurology is everywhere🦋🦋🦋
@EmoryNeuroCrit @caseyalbin @Capt_Ammonia @bensalem_owen @sigman_md @JimmySuhMD @EricLawson90 @JayKinariwala @VizcarraJA @proteoglycan1
"I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration. " Rubens
Neurology is everywhere🦋🦋🦋
@EmoryNeuroCrit @caseyalbin @Capt_Ammonia @bensalem_owen @sigman_md @JimmySuhMD @EricLawson90 @JayKinariwala @VizcarraJA @proteoglycan1
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