The New International Encyclopædia/Lesson in Anatomy

LESSON IN ANATOMY, or School of Anatomy, The, a celebrated painting by Rembrandt, painted in 1632 for the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, and now in the museum of The Hague, Holland. The renowned anatomist Níkolaas Tulp is represented dissecting an arm of a corpse lying on a table before him. The audience consists of seven persons, two of them members of the Guild of Surgeons.