The human cadaver in the painting is of man accused of being a

a. a criminal

b. a believer of pantheism

c. a blasphemer of John Calvin.

d. a follower of Martin Luther


Answer is a. a criminal (The event can be dated to 31 January 1632: the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, of which Tulp was official City Anatomist, permitted only one public dissection a year, and the body would have to be that of an executed criminal.)

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