The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp is painted by a Renaissance artist, Rembrandt, in 1632. It was oil on canvas painting.
This painting shows a reflection of what was happening during the Renaissance, through the the facial expression and the experimental body in the painting. During the Renaissance, artists wanted to make their paintings realistic with more details. In order to do that, the keen observers looked that dissected bodies to observe the muscles and wrinkles. So, the body that is being dissected in the painting represents the realism that the artists started to paint with during the Renaissance. Also, the facial expressions in the painting shows that people during the Renaissance enjoyed gaining new knowledge. This is also related to secularism, people questioned the church, and started experimenting on their own. The dissection which is shown in this painting is one of the experiments. They were used for observing the body for details in painting but also for studying the body parts for cure for diseases. Therefore, this painting shows realism and gaining new knowledge during the Renaissance.
