Se Il Lee

When Did We Learn to See Malocclusion? Böcklin’s Death, the Deviated Mandible, and the Orthodontic Eye

Arnold Böcklin's Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle (1872) is usually interpreted as a modern memento mori: the artist pauses at his work while Death plays a fiddle immediately behind him. Yet a closer anatomical inspection reveals another striking feature. Böcklin's own...