Nicolaes Tulp
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Nicolaes Tulp was a Dutch physician and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and as the subject of Rembrandt's famous painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.
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The Amsterdam Waag, originally a city gate, later used as a weigh house and guildhall. Both the Guild of Surgeons and the Amsterdam Guild of Saint Luke met upstairs, where Rembrandt's Anatomy lesson hung for centuries.
Family tree of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, showing his illustrious descendants in the famous Amsterdam Six family, as well as the famous cartographer Nicolaes Witsen
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt
Tulp's illustrated book, showing a page with an orangutanDoctors from Netherlands 6
About this person
Country
NetherlandsCategory
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1593 to 1674 · aged 80
Written about in
24 languages
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