Did Da Vinci and Rembrandt's Creative Genius Lie in The Way They Saw Themselves?

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(Image: © Rembrandt van Rijn)
▼ Famous painters da Vinci and Rembrandt, though from different centuries, had one oddity in common: The way the artists saw themselves in the mirror was likely a bit different than how others saw them, according to new findings.
The Renaissance polymath Leonardo  da Vinciand the 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van  Rijnpainted themselves in a peculiar way — with one eye turned outward. That has led a number of scholars to suggest that these famous painters actually had crossed eyes, a medical condition called "strabismus." These scholars suggested that the painters had a specific type of strabismus called "exotropia" in which one or both of the eyes are turned outward.
But no historical documents seem to exist that link the painters to such a medical condition. Now, a new study suggests that the two painters didn't actually have an outward-looking eye, but rather, they both had one dominant eye that led them to perceive themselves in the mirror as if having an outward-looking eye.
"When looking at one’s own eyes in a mirror, an individual can look at only one eye at a time," the researchers wrote in their new study published today (Nov. 26) in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology.
The eye you focus on in the mirror sees its own reflection looking straight back; but the other eye  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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