![]() ![]() Then there's Pia, an art restorer who is examining the painting in contemporary times. The novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection, and, as they prepare for that evening's big event, it follows several characters: a one-handed coat thief called Aris the Kid, who is awaiting his turn at the gallows Flora, the woman pregnant with his child who hopes to save him from the noose Jan Fetchet, a curio collector who also moonlights as an acquirer of medical cadavers René Descartes, who attended the dissection in the course of his quest to understand where the human soul resides and the 26-year old young master himself, who feels a shade uneasy about his assignment. Nicolaes Tulp" was the first major work by Rembrandt to be proclaimed a masterpiece. " Set on a single day in the Dutch Golden Age, this engrossing historical novel brilliantly imagines the complex story behind one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings Commissioned by the Amsterdam surgeon's guild, "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Thought others might be interested in it as well. Taken by her writing here, I looked for the book, "The Anatomy Lesson", noted in author credits. ![]()
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