![]() ![]() (Photo by Henk Lindeboom / Anefo from Wikimedia Commons) In the 1950s she began to record in French, eventually moved to France, and in 1961 married a Frenchman, Claude Wolff. She was a popular singer in the UK and became world famous in 1964 with her hit ‘Downtown’. Petula was a child star and first performed on radio for the BBC during the Second World War. As a fan since the 1960s it was an emotional occasion as Petula turned 81 in November and may not give many more live concerts. DSC 1734.085000Ī while ago I went to see Petula Clark in concert at the Barbican in York. A fairer contrast would I think be nation-based: Dutch versus Spanish, not Protestant versus Catholic.ĭolores Mitchell, ‘Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp: A Sinner Among the Righteous’, Artibus et Historiae, 15 (1994), 145-56. There was, for example, no Catholic ban on the dissection of corpses. ![]() It’s tempting to think of these two images as typifying practical Protestantism contrasted with theory-driven Catholicism, but we must resist the temptation. By the way, in the etching of Rembrandt’s picture by Johannes de Frey (Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne) a folio book has appeared in the bottom right-hand corner, so learning and experience both have a role to play. Hands-on experience apparently still plays only a small part in the education of doctors in Spain in our own time: I understand they study largely with books. The Dutch audience strain their necks to see the Spanish students point their fingers in rhetorical fashion. In the ‘Amphitheatrum Matritense’ Dr Martínez has a man to do that for him, leaving him free to point in lordly fashion at salient features with an outstretched finger in a pose reminiscent of that of a Roman general. He leaves that to foreigners like Dr Tulp. Not for ‘doctor don Martín Martínez’ grubbling round in the innards of a corpse, possibly that of a lowly criminal. (That is, Mateo Irala both designed and engraved it).įrontispiece of Anatomia completa del hombre It has 23 plates showing various grisly parts, but what catches my attention is the engraved frontispiece, signed ‘ F. ![]() Por el doctor don Martin Martinez (Madrid, 1752) British Library RB.23.a.12905 segun el methodo con que se explica en nuestro theatro de Madrid. His left hand is raised to chest height in a modest pose of explication.Īnatomia completa del hombre con todos los hallazgos, nuevas doctrinas, y observaciones raras hasta el tiempo presente. With his right hand he is securing the flexores digitorum with his forceps. Dr Tulp is addressing seven beruffed gents, one of whom is taking notes. Painted in 1632, it show Dr Nicolaes Tulp, praelector of the Amsterdam Surgeons’s Guild, dissecting the corpse of Aris Kindt (Adriaen Adriaenszoon), who was executed for killing a man in the course of stealing a coat. You probably know Rembrandt’s ‘ The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp’. ![]()
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