As a part of the baroque period a very world-renowned artist today however dead for many years is Rembrandt. He has bestowed the world with many a plenty of paintings. Within the Baroque Era the world was beginning to make a move in scientific discovery. We have seen paintings in class such as the Geographer, by Vermeer as the study of earth is being magnified, as it is a new medium. Different in the two, is Vermeer diagnoses the world, on a macroscopic field, while Rembrandt decides to move microscopically. This particular painting to be dissected by myself ironically is "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp", by Rembrandt himself. He was a Dutch painter as was Vermeer and unique about their addition to the Baroque era is the sort of had a free brush/mind when it came to what they wanted to paint.
This painting would definitely fit in this era for characteristics of this time consist of sense of the self, physical/spiritual, and order. By judging this work of art it shows spiritual vs. the physical world as science is making a leaping bound in this time with the help of those such as Galileo. It gives the human an understanding as to what we consist of and where it comes from, and that's an important reality in the realm of science. This relates, as the spiritual world is one to be questioned at this time as people were left to sort between the theories of creationism vs. evolution, always to be a critical fork in the road.
In addition to separation of the world and the otherworldly, another unique trait of this time is that of order. That’s relatively easy to design, as study is of a human. As the human body is clearly one of the most complex organic structures to dwell upon earth it requires an intense amount of order to enable all of the complex ability it retains such as movement, exchange, synthesis, and no other organism other than viral AIDS is more comparable in complexity. The viewer can clearly see the interior of the arm, including the vessels, muscles, ligament, tendons, and bone, all the way to the fingertips. These all root to a common control the brain, which is the knowledge center, therefore implying the nature of knowledge and the will to actually have, free-will, which is said the openness to paint for these Dutch painters.
Lastly an important characteristic of this time is the sense of self. Relating to the ever-studied wonder of the human being. The nature of the human being and mechanisms used to be a functioning human. This man laying down being flayed and dissected is a direct method of discovering the self because without the inside, there is no completeness to our outside. With these reasons, this painting exemplifies the necessary reasons as to why this painting existed in the Baroque time. This relates to the last paragraph of free thought and free will, notions of the self.
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