Portrait painting benefitted greatly from such commissions and from the general appreciation of art by bourgeois clients, who supported portraiture as well as still-life and landscapes painting. In addition, the first significant art and dealer markets flourished in Holland at that time. With plenty of demand, Rembrandt was able to experiment with unconventional composition and technique, such as chiaroscuro. He demonstrated these innovations, pioneered by Italian masters such as Caravaggio, most notably in his famous "Night Watch" (1642). "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp" (1632) is another fine example of Rembrandt's mastery of the group painting, in which he bathes the corpse
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp referenced the painting at the bottom of page 10, where the characters observe the disembowelment of a fish. The 2011 video game "" references the painting in both in-game portraits that can be found on the wall and in a certain cinematic trailer, featuring the main protagonist Adam Jensen as the cadaver as Dr. Nicolaes and his students study his charred and ruined arms, which in the actual story become amputated and replaced with mechanical limbs. The painting is discussed by the narrator (a young man) and his mother during a visit to the Met in "The Goldfinch", a 2013