• Did the Venus of Botticelli die of tuberculosis?
• Did Rubens’ wife and her sisters all have the same hip disorder?
• Did the Mona Lisa suffer from a dangerous metabolic disease?
• Did Erasmus, the famous humanist, endured something else than syphilis ?
• Is the composer Paganini’s talent due to an inborn distortion?

The answer to all these questions is ‘yes’. Did these assertions make you curious? The artist and the doctor will make you discover much more. The different perspective of professor Jan Dequeker takes the reader-viewer with him on a marvellous and surprising journey through the world of art and medicine. An interesting confrontation between two disciplines.