The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp central figures (in this case, Dr. Tulp) probably paid more, even twice as much. Rembrandt's anatomical portrait radically altered the conventions of the genre, by including a full length corpse in the center of the image (using Christ-like iconography) and creating not just a portrait but a dramatic Mise-en-scène. Rembrandt's image is a fiction; in a typical anatomy lesson, the surgeon would begin by opening the chest cavity and thorax because the internal organs there decay most rapidly. One person is missing: the Preparator, whose task was to prepare the body for the lesson. In the 17th century an important
The End of Time (Doctor Who) the episode's conclusion, as has happened before, the Doctor regenerates and becomes a new man with a new personality and physical traits, setting up the show's following series with Matt Smith as the star and Steven Moffat as executive producer. The episode opens with a view of Earth from space and a man narrating that in the last days of humanity, everyone had bad dreams. We then see Wilfred Mott (Cribbins), entering a church and seeing a blue box painted on a stained glass window. Meanwhile, on the Ood-Sphere in 4226, the Ood warn the Doctor (Tennant) that the Master