[Medicine and disease in baroque art].
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anatomist, but a doctor interested in the changes caused by disease in organs, to thus establish the cause of death. He was, therefore, the perfect representative of doctors of the time, attempting to apply scientific method (based on ‘causal knowledge’) to the interpretation of illness. Dr Tulp’s dissections (nearly always on the corpses of those sentenced to death) brought together followers as interested in anatomy as he was. Not all those attending the dissections were doctors. Artists frequently attended to learn more about anatomy in order to produce better representations of the human body (Michelangelo often attended dissections by Vesalius, and Leonardo da Vinci wrote a book on human anatomy after watching dissections by Marcantonio de La Torre).2 The surgeons’ guild commissioned the canvas to commemorate a public lesson given by their principal anatomist Dr Nicolaes Pieterszoon Tulp.3 The work presents a classic pyramid composition, through which Rembrandt managed to express the notion of spiritual unity between the 7 men pictured with the speaker. In this authentic collective portrait, each sitter holds a different position and expression, with the light concentrated on the body parts the artist wishes to highlight. The black clothes of the time further accentuate the contrast between zones of light and dark. Progress in Medical Research and Training
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- Actas dermo-sifiliograficas
دوره 98 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007