Da Vinci: A Web-Fingered Renaissance Man?

If you’ve watched "Carnivàle" or "Nip/Tuck," you may have seen actress and former TV anchorwoman Bree Walker, who has webbed fingers and toes thanks to a condition called ectrodactyly. Now, it turns out that Leonardo da Vinci may have had a similar condition. A da Vinci buff is claiming that: … da Vinci had a […]

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If you've watched "Carnivàle" or "Nip/Tuck," you may have seen actress and former TV anchorwoman Bree Walker, who has webbed fingers and toes thanks to a condition called ectrodactyly.

Now, it turns out that Leonardo da Vinci may have had a similar condition.

A da Vinci buff is claiming that:

... da Vinci had a congenital defect – a webbed, or syndactyl, hand. The artist's drawings of his own hand, Sweeney contends, seem to depict a webbed third and fourth finger, characteristic of syndactyly, and a pointed little finger. [The researcher] also singles out similarly deformed left hands in other da Vinci artworks – including the hand of Jesus Christ in “The Last Supper.”

Both the da Vinci theorist and Walker are scheduled to appear on “Primetime: Medical Mysteries” tonight.

Question: Would this have affected da Vinci's ability to be an artist?

...a Da Vinci code [SD U-T]