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368 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007


"The woman's hand is resting on her naked left breast, with the fingers pointing towards the right side and the armpit. If we follow this pointer, we might notice a slightly darker coloring at the edge of the breast, which is a very pale shade of blue. However, it is not a shadow, because the skin is drawn tight, bulging as if there is a lump, and so is the underarm area on the same side. If we take the analysis further by applying some special photographic techniques, it turns out that to render this bit of the portrait Raphael layered at least nine colors on top of each other, including some dark shades, while on the other side pink and cream were enough. A medical diagnosis was made for the first time in 2002, which declared it a cancer of the left breast with probable metastasis to the axillary lymph nodes."