Goya and tinea favosa

Abstract

A case of a tinea favosa involving the scalp of a child represented in the painting "Boys climbing a tree" (Muchachos trepando a un árbol), by Francisco Goya y Lucientes, with pictorial representation of favic scutula and consequent alopecia.

Keywords

• Alopecia
• Dermatomycoses
• Scalp dermatoses
• Tinea
• Tinea capitis
• Trichophyton