The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp scene. The face of the corpse is partially shaded, a suggestion of "umbra mortis" (shadow of death), a technique that Rembrandt was to use frequently. The French art historian Jean-Marie Clarke points out that the navel of the corpse has the shape of a capital R and connects this observation to the fact that Rembrandt worked intensively on his signatures in 1632, using three types consecutively before settling on the final, first name form in 1633. Kindt was discussed in the 1999 novel "The Rings of Saturn" by W. G. Sebald, and plays a significant role in Laird Hunt's 2006
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