Nina Siegal’s THE ANATOMY, the fictionalized story of the creation of Rembrandt’s first masterpiece, The Anatomy Lesson, in which the 26-year old painter from Leiden receives a commission to paint a group portrait of the Amsterdam Surgeon’s Guild, and what follows, told through a cast of characters whose stories interconnect including Amsterdam’s chief surgeon, Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the surgeon’s wife, a curio dealer selling a bird of paradise, a publicly hanged thief with an amputated hand who provides the corpse for the lesson, and a peasant girl desperately trying to ensure a dignified burial for the thief, the man she has always loved, in a tale of courage, compassion, and the restorative power of art at auction, to Nan A. Talese at Nan A. Talese, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
