title: Genetic disorders in portraits.
abstract: Many artists have depicted genetic disorders in portrait paintings. In some instances such disorders can be identified in self-portraits, most notably the tetralogy of Fallot in the Dutch painter Dick Ket, or in portraits of the famous, such as the Habsburg jaw in the Emperor Charles V. But it is in other portraits that most examples can be found, such as the different types of dwarfism depicted by Velázquez. A table listing over 70 examples is provided.
authors.affiliation: Green College, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Emery
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D005260:Female; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000266:history*; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D011173:Portraits as Topic