The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman (alternative spelling Deyman) is a 1656, fragmentary painting by Rembrandt, now in Amsterdam Museum. It is a group portrait showing a brain dissection by Dr. Jan Deijman (161966). Much of the canvas was destroyed in a fire in 1723 and the painting was subsequently recut to its present dimensions, though a preparatory sketch shows the full group. The painting shows Dr. Deijman performing a brain dissection on the cadaver of an executed criminal, the Flemish tailor Joris "Black Jack" Fonteijn (1633/3456). Dr. Deijman's assistant, the surgeon Gijsbert Calkoen
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