The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel

The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel

<b>Set in the Dutch Golden Age, an engrossing historical novel that brilliantly imagines the complex story behind one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings</b><br /><br /><br /><span>THE ANATOMY LESSON takes us through a single day in Golden<br />Age Amsterdam as the city is preparing for the Winter Festival: executions,<br />followed by a public dissection, and then a banquet and torch parade through<br />town. Via several characters, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies<br />for the city's chief anatomist, to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel tells<br />the imagined tale of how a common thief came to be the muse for the first<br />painting to which a 26-year old artist from Leiden attached his signature:<br />Rembrandt. </span>