![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Descartes happened to be in Amsterdam at the time. She is six months gone when she gets news that Adriaen is to be executed for committing one theft too many. They loved each other and Flora became pregnant with the thief’s child. The heart is Flora, the only one who showed kindness to Adriaen during his life. Adriaen tells us of his unhappy childhood and how he came to be a thief. One last narrator, a modern painting conservator, lends us his scholarly experience to understand what Rembrandt was doing with his painting.Įach of the narrators, who get the unusual opportunity of addressing us all from the first person, are distinguished by an anatomical heading. That man, Adriaen Adriaenszoon, lived a short, miserable life, with no idea that we would still know his name four hundred years later. To yet another narrator, he was the subject of a painting that would become world famous. He was a subject of medical study by two other narrators and an object to be acquired by a fourth. This man, a thief, was beloved by one narrator in Nina Siegal’s The Anatomy Lesson. One day in January of 1632, a handful of people became linked through the body of one man. ![]() I received a free review copy of this ebook from NetGalley, on behalf of the publisher. ![]()
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