“Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you love to read. Dazzling.” -Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy “Nina Siegal’s lovely novel dissects the dissection, evocatively translating the painted narrative into words.” -Russell Shorto, author of Amsterdam “Siegal succeeds in the task she has set herself-to transmute her material into a work of art.” - The New Yorker Conveys the pomp, graft, bustle and rough justice of 17th-century Holland through a multitude of voices.” - The New York Times Book Review intricate work of historical fiction.”. “A literary page-turner that captures a story behind a masterpiece. Vividly rendered, masterfully written, The Anatomy Lesson is a story of mind and body, death and love-and redemptive power of art. 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.Īs the story builds to its dramatic conclusion, circumstances conspire to produce a famous painting-and an immortal painter. 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.
Nicolaes Tulp as he performs a medical dissection. The Surgeons’ Guild has commissioned a young artist named Rembrandt to paint Dr.
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