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Anchor
December 2014
On Sale: December 2, 2014
Featuring: Nicolaes Tulp; Aris; Jan Fetchet
ISBN: 0804169233
EAN: 9780804169233
Kindle: B00F8F7MQM
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Fiction | Historical
A single day in Amsterdam, 1632. The Surgeons’ Guild has
commissioned a young artist named Rembrandt to paint Dr.
Nicolaes Tulp as he performs a medical dissection. In the
swirl of anticipation and intrigue surrounding the event, we
meet an extraordinary constellation of men and women whose
lives hinge, in some way, on Dr. Tulp’s anatomy lesson.
There is Aris the Kid, the condemned coat thief whose body
is to be used for the dissection; Flora, his pregnant lover;
Jan Fetchet, the curio dealer who acquires corpses for the
doctor’s work; the great René Descartes, who will attend the
dissection in his quest to understand where the human soul
resides; and the Dutch master himself, who feels a shade
uneasy about this assignment.
As the story builds to its dramatic conclusion,
circumstances conspire to produce a famous painting—and an
immortal painter. Vividly rendered, masterfully written, The
Anatomy Lesson is a story of mind and body, death and
love—and redemptive power of art.
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