title: Nosebleed of children in painting.
abstract: In 13 paintings and drawings, dating from the preclassic period in ancient Greece to the present day, representations of children with nosebleed could be detected in museums, churches, galleries and art-books. Children and adolescents were bleeding from their noses because of mechanical injury, infectious diseases, or hemorrhagic diathesis. Some artists depicted nosebleeding in a very realistic manner, others represented this symptom in a more abstract or caricaturistic way. Nosebleed stood as a symbol for human failure, as a sign of the loser, the suffering and tortured child, and as a sign of death.
authors.affiliation: Section of Rhinology and Rhonchopathies, Ulm University, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pirsig
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pentz
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings