Gerard de Lairesse
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Gerard or Gérard Lairesse was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and Fre
Rembrandt's portrait of Gerard de Lairesse at age 25, showing his saddle nose caused by congenital syphilis. Oil on canvas, c. 1665–67. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Apollo and Aurora, 1671, ceiling painting for Herengracht, n° 539, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gerard de Lairesse, Allegory of sciences, Rijksmuseum
Gerard de Lairesse: Allegory of the Five Senses, 1668, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Govert Bidloo
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Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. He was the personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and King of England, Sc
Portrait with scalpel as the new Vesalius, by Gerard de Lairesse, engraved by Abraham Blooteling, the frontispiece to his anatomical atlas.
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