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The Beauty of Anatomy

Episode 3: Rembrandt and Ruysch

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four

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Adam Rutherford travels to Holland to find out what it was that drew Rembrandt to anatomy and why dissecting bodies was thought a suitable subject for high art. Show more

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