[Could Aleijadinho have suffered from scleroderma].
Rheumatic conditions have affected, among others, emperors, kings, politicians, religious personages and artists. Knowledge about their articular illnesses has increased with a multiplicity of source documents on these personalities: ancient texts, letters, drawings, paintings, sculptures, songs and pictures. Here the case of the most important Brazilian visual artist is described, namely the sculptor Aleijadinho (1730?-1814), who, besides suffering an extremely disability condition, did not give up performing artistic works throughout his whole life. This study proposes a discussion about the possibility that such an artist has presented a clinical profile of scleroderma.
Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. valderilio@hotmail.com
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D001938:Brazil; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000266:history*; D019066:Facies; D005197:Famous Persons; D006227:Hand Deformities, Acquired / Q000266:history; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017119:Porphyria Cutanea Tarda / Q000266:history; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000266:history*; D012613:Sculpture / Q000266:history*
La malattia dell'Aleijadinho potrebbe essere stata una sclerodermia?