Art and the Audiogram: How Skillful Observation Provides Insights to the History, Present, and Future.

Abstract

Although simple, audiograms are a dynamic tool that, much like fine art, can be used by experts to decipher the history, present, and probable future of its subject. Through close comparison with El Greco's <i>Burial of the Count Orgaz</i>, a very well-known painting for its temporal complexity, a sample audiogram is examined through an artistic lens. That intimate relationship with time that El Greco's piece and audiograms share offers not only a layered interpretive narrative but also a humanities-based perspective on how to approach diagnostic testing.