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Originally Posted by Claudemir Bonfim
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I found this astonishing remark, on Rembrandt's talent, in the article:
"In an article published on September 16, 2004 in The New England Journal of Medicine, Margaret S. Livingstone, professor of neurobiology of Harvard Medical School, suggests that Rembrandt, whose eyes failed to align correctly, suffered from stereo blindness. She made this conclusion after studying 36 of Rembrandt's self-portraits.
Because he could not form a normal binocular vision, his brain automatically switched to one eye for many visual tasks. This disability could have helped him to flatten images as he saw, and then put it onto the two-dimensional canvas. In the author's words, this could have been a gift to a great painter like him:
Art teachers often instruct students to close one eye in order to flatten what they see. Therefore, stereo blindness might not be a handicap