title: [Dystonia in the painting of Matias Grunewald . Epidemic ergotism in the late middle ages].
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.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Neurología, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, Madrid.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García de Yébenes
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: García de Yébenes
mesh_terms: D004421:Dystonia / Q000266:history*; D004881:Ergotism / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts
vernacular_title: La distonía en la pintura de Matías Grünewald. El ergotismo epidémico en la baja edad media.