title: [The oldest painting of an anatomy lesson].
abstract: The Amsterdam Historical Museum has a large collection of paintings of anatomy lessons, painted when surgeons followed the popular sixteenth century trend for group portraits. The very first, a painting of an anatomy lesson given by Sebastiaen Egbertsz de Vrij, was painted by Aert Pietersz in 1601-1603.
authors.affiliation: jnkeeman@xs4all.nl
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Keeman
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration / Q000266:history*; D009426:Netherlands