Keynote/lecture by Michiel Kersten for the annual conference of the Northern Spinal Deformities Society in Europe on August 28, 2015 in Amsterdam

1. Painted Lessons in Anatomy in the
Age of Rembrandt
Curiosity and Amazement:
the Body Explored

2. Rembrandt(1606-1669),
TheAnatomicallessonbyDr.Tulp,
1632

3. ,

4. ,MichielenPietervanMierevelt,
AnatomischelesvanDr.Willem
vanderMeer,Delft,1617

5. Rembrandt(1606-1669),
TheAnatomicallessonbyDr.Tulp,
1632

6. AdreaVesalius(AndriesvanWesele)
1514–1564)

7. Dehumanicorporisfabrica
Libriseptem(Basel1543).
SameyearasCopernicus’,
Derevolutionibusorbiumcoelestium.

8. JanStefanKalkar(1499-1545)

10. EgbertvanHeemskerk,Thesurgeon
JacobHerculesinhisworkshop,1669

11. SmallMeatHall,Amsterdam.
AnatomicalTheaterbetween
1578-1619and1639-1691

12. Amsterdam,DeWaag-WeighHouse
AnatomicalTheatrebetween
1619/1624-1639andafter1691

13. BartholomeusDolendo,The
AnatomicalTheatreinLeiden,1609

14. AertPietersz,TheAnatomical
LessonbySebastiaenEgbertsz,
1601-03

15. ThomasdeKeyser?
TheosteologyLessonbyDr.
SebastiaenEgbertsz,1619

16. Rembrandt,TheAnatomicalLesson
byDr.NicolaesTulp,1632

17. Rembrandt,TheAnatomicalLesson
byDr.Tulp,1632.Detail

19. AnnotationsintheAnatomyBook
oftheSurgeon’sGuild,1656

20. Rembrandt,TheanatomicalLessons
byDr.JanDeijman,1656

22. AndreaMantegna,TheLamentionof
Christ,c.1480–1500.
PinacotecadiBrera,Milan)

24. GerardDou,StillLifewithSkull,
GlobeandAnatomicalBook

25. AdrieanBacker,
TheAnatomicalLessonby
Dr.FrederikRusch1670

26. TheAnatomicalLessonby
FrederikRuysch,1670.
Detail:lymphenodegland

29. JanvanNeck,
TheAnatomicalLessonby
Dr.FrederikRuysch,1683

30. TiboutRegters,Deanatomische
lesvanProf.PetrusCamper,1758

32. Most of the paintings can be seen at
The Hermitage Amsterdam
Portrait Gallery of the Golden Age

33. Artetcetera.
Words about Art