REVIEW ARTICLE
Autopsy in European art of the last five hundred years. A short story
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Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland
Submission date: 2019-02-06
Acceptance date: 2019-02-16
Publication date: 2019-04-24
Pol J Pathol 2019;70(1):57-61
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ABSTRACT
The Renaissance was a surge in intellectual development. It was the time when almost everyone was interested in science, a specially in medicine. It was a period they were interested in human body, and they wanted to know about it as much as was possible. The autopsy was more and more popular. That popularity had been noticed by the artists. Since the end of Middle Ages the anatomy of the human body and the anatomy lessons has been used by artists as a topic in their art.
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In 1656, he created another painting devoted to this subject: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam. Unfortunately, most of it was destroyed in a fire in 1723. The preserved part of this painting shows Deijman performing a brain dissection.
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