Georges de La Tour and the overaction of the superior oblique muscle.

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Univer­ sity of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Reprint requests to Hermann M. Burian, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. recumbent St. Sebastian, being treated by St. Irene. It was a night piece with the light coming from torches to the left and above, forming successive picture planes, giving an almost cubist appearance. I was very much intrigued by de La Tour but could not find anything about him in the books at my disposal, and the art history students and instructors from whom I sought information shrugged him off as a "minor manierist." This did not deter me from searching for his paintings on my various travels, and