MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — A study tested the hypothesis that Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings utilizing the sfumato technique may be perceived differently by people with central vision loss vs. peripheral vision loss.
The results were presented in a poster by Annah P. Baykal, MD, and co-authors at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
Sfumato is a painting technique of the Renaissance in which lines are blurred to create in-focus and out-of-focus planes, mimicking the perception of central vs. peripheral retinal processing of information. “Diseases affecting different parts of