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THE ANATOMY LESSON
By: Nina Siegel
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 Surgeonsβ 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. Tulpβs 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 doctorβs work; the great RenΓ© 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 paintingβand an immortal painter. Vividly rendered, masterfully written, The Anatomy Lesson is a story of mind and body, death and loveβand redemptive power of art.
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