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Rembrandt's breakthrough group portrait shows a celebrated surgeon dissecting a corpse's forearm before a circle of rapt colleagues. Painted at just twenty-six, he arranges the figures with a theatrical drama that left his rivals behind. The picture launched his Amsterdam career.
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
- Date1632
- MovementDutch Golden Age
- WhereMauritshuis, The Hague
- RegionLow Countries · North