Abstract
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.—Sir William Osler. It is natural that the opthalmologist should develop an analytic attitude in regard to the visual capacities of artists and that he should search for evidences of normal and abnormal sight as revealed in their paintings. A scientific rendition of the visual truths of central and side vision is not to be expected. That knowledge is still largely the possession of the medical profession, but it was hoped that the uncanny instinct which is one of the significant endowments of the great artist would have produced pictorial evidence of the recognition of these natural forms of sight. Many great artists have shown occasional flashes of partial recognition of visual truth, but only in the genre work of Rembrandt and in that of the middle periods of Renoir and Monet have I found with any consistency
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