Michelangelo was left-handed and
used his right hand because of prejudice against left-handed
people during his time, medicine in art expert Davide Lazzeri
says in a new article in Clinical Anatomy.
He worked hard to use his right hand from a young age in
painting but continued to chisel and sculpt with his right,
Lazzeri says.
This was because he needed more strength in making sculpture,
the expert says.
Lazzeri came to his conclusions by comparing the impressions
he made in his works with the recent discovery that he had
arthritis in his hands and with a self-caricature recently found
in his painting of Victoria Colonna, where he is seen painting
with his right hand.
In Michelangelo's time, but also much more recently in Albert
Einstein's youth, young 'lefties' were forced to switch to their
right hand because the left hand was considered "the Devil's
hand".
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