The Anatomia Italiana Northern Europe Program offers a symposium-like experience, visiting renowned anatomy exhibitions, rare medical book collections, and the world’s greatest works of art depicting human anatomy as a science.
The Northern Europe Program visits the Vrolik Musuem of Human Anatomy at the University of Amsterdam, The Old Operating Theatre of London, as well as Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp in The Hague. Travel to Brussels, the birthplace of Andreas Vesalius, to pay homage to the Father of Modern Human Anatomy.
The richness of The Northern Europe Program lies with the manner in which it connects the Italian Renaissance with the Dutch Masters, and also how it incorporates free time for personal and cultural exploration.
Leisure time opportunities abound: from fish and chips in a London pub for dinner, to Belgium waffles and chocolate for breakfast in Brussels! The opportunities are seemingly endless!
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Northern Europe Program Virtual Tour
The Fabrica, (1542) Andreas Vesalius, Wellcome Collection, London
The Oldest Operating Theatre in Europe (1822) London
Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) Johannes Vermeer, The Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani (1749) Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Wellcome Collection, London
Tower of London
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederik Ruysch (1683) Jan van Neck, Amsterdam Museum
London Street Art!
Amstel River, Amsterdam
Thesaurus Anatomicus (1710) Frederik Ruysch, Wellcome Collection, London
Tower Bridge over The Thames, London
The first X-Ray image (1895) Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Wellcome Collection, London
The Osteology Lesson of Dr. Sebastiaen Egbertsz (1619), Nicolaes Pickenoy, Amsterdam Museum
de Motu Cordis (1628) William Harvey, Wellcome Collection, London
Mont des Arts, Brussels
Brussels Restaurants!
The Milkmaid (1658), Johannes Vermeer, The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Library at KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, or the Catholic University of Leuven)
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederik Ruysch, (1670) Adriaen Backer, Amsterdam Museum
de Motu Cordis (1628) William Harvey, Wellcome Collection, London
Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, (1886) Vincent Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Anatomy of the Human Body (1390) Mansur ibn Ilyas, Wellcome Collection, London
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman (1656), Rembrandt van Rijn, H'ART Museum, Amsterdam
Historical Museum of the Human Body, Museum Vrolik, University of Amsterdam