Dutch Golden Age · 1632
Rembrandt van Rijn 1606–1669
Mauritshuis · The Hague
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Before you stands one of Western art's most arresting canvases. Rembrandt painted this in 1632, twenty-five and newly arrived in Amsterdam, fusing portraiture, science, and theatre. The setting: the Surgeons' Guild's Theatrum Anatomicum, where public dissections drew physicians and citizens who came, as to a play, to witness the body's secrets.
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