Frederic Chopin and Georges Sand (painting: Eugene Delacroix)
Posted on 01/25/2011 4:43:41 AM PST by JoeProBono
Artistic genius may sometimes teeter on the brink of madness, but in the case of 19th-century romantic composer Frederic Chopin, some doctors have a more straightforward explanation: epilepsy.
During his lifetime, Chopin's tendency to drift off while at the piano was interpreted by his partner George Sand as "the manifestation of a genius full of sentiment and expression." But in a new analysis published this week, Spanish doctors say Chopin's hallucinations may have been due to a temporal lobe epilepsy rather than the result of any sweeping artistic tendencies.
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Frederic Chopin and Georges Sand (painting: Eugene Delacroix)
Looks like she’s holding a dead bird.
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