The art and science of medicine.

As we grow older and we cross the shadow line, we begin to wonder what is the profession which has consumed our life. Between August and September 1957 Pablo Picasso closed the door of his studio and faced the challenge of Las Meniñas of Velázquez. He changed the vertical format to the horizontal and opened the great window. Then in a boundless game of imagination he metamorphosed the figures. The principal focus of Picasso’s attention was a little girl, the Infanta Margarita. Picasso devoted 14 studies exclusively to her, decomposing and composing her, trying to get her essence, to break to the heart of the matter (Fig.1). Now, if we try to get in a