recent World Health Organization study. The total cost of the disorder in the US is estimated to be. more than $8 billion.4 OCD is a treatable condition with 50% to 60% of patients responding to. first line of treatment, which includes pharmacological and/or psychological intervention.5,6 How-. ever, about one-third of the patients improve only partially, and roughly 20% do not respond to.
A Masterpiece is the work of an artist who has been absorbed by the spirit of his/her times and can transform a personal experience into a universal one. Masterpieces make us forget the artists, and instead direct our attention to the artists works.
Giovanni Bellini initiated a century of Venetian greatness with the richness of color for which Venice became famous. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael, the greatest italian artists competed with one another in Florence and in Rome to create a perfect art. Leonardo has left only a small group of magnificent easel paintings and one grand but deteriorated fresco, The Last Supper in Milan.