The Agnew Clinic exception of the patient. It largely repeats the subject of Eakins's earlier "The Gross Clinic" (1875), seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting echoes the subject and treatment of Rembrandt's famous "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" (1632) (in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, the Netherlands), and other earlier depictions of public surgery such as the frontispiece of Andreas Vesalius's "De humani corporis fabrica" (1543), the "Quack Physicians' Hall" ("c." 1730) by the Dutch artist Egbert van Heemskerck, and the fourth scene in William Hogarth's "The Four Stages of Cruelty" (1751). Students of the medical class of
The Anatomy Lesson (Roth novel) three were collected and republished in 1985 as "Zuckerman Bound". Republication moved some critics to reassess this third entry; again in "The New Yorker", John Updike wrote, "In toto, "Zuckerman Bound" shows the author's always ebullient invention and artful prose at their most polished and concentrated, the topic of authorship clearly being, to this author, a noble one." In "The New York Times Book Review", critic Harold Bloom said of the three collected Zuckerman novels, ""Zuckerman Bound" merits something reasonably close to the highest level of esthetic praise for tragicomedy." The Anatomy Lesson (Roth novel) The Anatomy Lesson is a