Did Leon Wyczółkowski suffer 
from solar maculopathy?

Józef Kałużny; Dariusz Markowski; Bartłomiej Kałużny; Bartosz Sikorski

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Klinika Oczna / Acta Ophthalmologica Polonica

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Did Leon Wyczółkowski suffer from solar maculopathy?

Józef Kałużny

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,

Dariusz Markowski

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,

Bartłomiej J. Kałużny

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,

Bartosz Sikorski

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Z Kliniki Chorób Oczu Collegium Medicum w Bydgoszczy, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
Z Instytutu Zabytkoznawstwa i Konserwatorstwa Wydziału Sztuk Pięknych Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

Online publish date: 2006/12/21

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Noted Polish painter, Leon Wyczółkowski, during his long-standing in Ukraine used to paint pictures gazing directly at the sun in order to intensify visual sensations. Damage to the eyes caused by sunlight induced him to become a patient of a famous ophthalmologist in Kiev. Past disease led to blue color vision impairment just like it happen to people who previously suffered from solar maculopathy. We suppose, it could gradually force the artist to resign from color painting and to take up drawing.

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Did Leon Wyczółkowski suffer from solar maculopathy?

Józef Kałużny 1 , Dariusz Markowski 2 , Bartłomiej J. Kałużny 1 , Bartosz Sikorski 1

solar maculopathy, Leon Wyczółkowski, color perception

Józef Kałużny

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,

Dariusz Markowski

²

,

Bartłomiej J. Kałużny

¹

,

Bartosz Sikorski

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