Pedersen L M, Permin H
Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lancet. 1988 Jun 4;1(8597):1267-9. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(88)92082-x.
The painters Rubens, Renoir, and Dufy suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and Klee from scleroderma. Analysis of the areas of various colours in randomly selected paintings by these four artists and by eight "controls" (contemporary painters without rheumatic disease) suggests that Rubens, Renoir, Dufy, and Klee used significantly more bright and clear colours based on toxic heavy metals and fewer earth colours containing harmless iron and carbon compounds. These four painters may have been heavily exposed to mercury sulphide, cadmium sulphide, arsenic sulphide, lead, antimony, tin, cobalt, manganese, and chromium, the metals of the bright and clear colours, and exposure to these metals may be of importance in the development of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Artists today are not so exposed, but heavy metal contamination in food and drinking water exists and experience from the occupational exposure of old masters is still relevant.
画家鲁本斯、雷诺阿和杜菲患有类风湿性关节炎，克利患有硬皮病。对这四位艺术家以及八位“对照者”（无风湿性疾病的当代画家）随机挑选的画作中各种颜色区域进行分析表明，鲁本斯、雷诺阿、杜菲和克利使用了显著更多基于有毒重金属的明亮鲜艳颜色，而使用含无害铁和碳化合物的土色较少。这四位画家可能大量接触了硫化汞、硫化镉、硫化砷、铅、锑、锡、钴、锰和铬等明亮鲜艳颜色所含的金属，接触这些金属可能在炎性风湿性疾病的发展中起重要作用。如今的艺术家没有如此接触这些金属，但食品和饮用水中存在重金属污染，而且从古代大师职业接触的经历来看仍具有相关性。
