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Detail from "Minerve chassant les Vices du Jardin de la Vertu" (Minerva chasing away Vices from the Garden of Virtues - see another detail) c. 1502 - Andrea Mantega (1431-1506) - Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

This individual has unusual (dysmorphic) facial features (suggestive of mental abnormality) and the missing arms are due to prenatal causes (etiology).

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