Rembrandt's Gruesome Paintings (Waldemar Januszczak Documentary) | Perspective

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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp by Rembrandt: The subjects of this gruesome painting-both the surgeon and the cadaver-prove just as fascinating as the Dutch master’s use of symbolism.
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[@m.entera3196]

"There are a million stories in the world of Art ...." Please tell the ALL, sir. I'll happily watch and even endure the commercials.

[@bev9708]

Ohhh Waldy... we LOVE you!! You enrich our lives!!!

[@MichaelFlynn0]

too right....every other 'Perspective' episode without Waldy is mere historical drudge.

[@victoriadiesattheend.8478]

I adore Rembrandt. The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp is one of my favorite paintings and I have always appreciated Rembrandt's fascination with light and dark. Absolutely beautiful. I feel I need to put in that I am a mortician.

[@mjc11a]

I share your fascination with Rembrandt. And, if I may, you have a connection to him as well. For I see practicing your craft very much like a skilled artisan. Thanks for posting and be safe 🙏

[@Luboman411]

I love Rembrandt. He is the only painter that has made me genuinely cry. He's that awesomely good. Other painters have disgusted me, thrilled me, intrigued me, scared me. But Rembrandt is the only one so far that has made me cry with actual sadness and tenderness. It was his epic "The Return of the Prodigal Son" that did it for me. Magnificent painting. And then there are those eyes he painted--Rembrandt has painted the best eyes I have ever seen in art. Those eyes in his self-portraits are just filled with such grief, anticipation, anxiety and intelligence all mixed together. Then there's his dead cow carcass painting, which is another magnificent tour de force. He got very close to modern art there, 350 years early.

[@robertroest7619]

Me too, especially his self portraits make me sob like a baby. It’s really uncanny how he makes that happen. They’re more human than humans.

[@Khamomil]

Waldemar didn't disappoint.

[@peggyjaeger9280]

As usual !

[@jimgordon6629]

Waldemar never disappoints. He is a marvel, pure and simple!

[@paulnijsten6360]

He never does.

[@paulscottfilms]

Utterly intriguing , penetrating and a brilliant script and [execution ] as usual from Waldemar '

[@philipstevenson5166]

As undergraduate medical students, we had a formalin-fixed corpse to dissect throughout the year. We started on the arm. Don't know if the syllabus was influenced by Rembrandt, but it would be nice to think so.

[@doggedout]

This reminds me of a show I used to watch. It was called "Night Gallery". Even the titles of the paintings seem like something Rod Serling may have come up with.

[@teaandpaintingwithjayne6936]

You are brilliant Sir....Please keep going!

[@anthonypeters8714]

The research and the in depth knowledge and above all the narration is simply too good that everything breezes through. Thanks.

[@Samplesurfer]

It's a pity he makes so much small mistakes in the details that color his narrations. It looks like a weak group of fact checkers in charge for editing his texts. I never had that with BBC history TV-series like the ones presented by a.o. Simon Schama.

[@grantsmythe8625]

@@Samplesurfer Schama is great.

[@justme-tj3jt]

When I was younger and more depressed Rembrandt was one of my fav artists. I got over it though.

[@TheLifeOfRoss]

WALDEMAR IS AWESOME!!

[@StephiSensei26]

Chilling! Terrific Waldemar!

[@sawahtb]

Having been subject to a lot of surgery (c-section, cancer) I appreciate surgeons' skill.

[@kaloarepo288]

One of the most gruesome of Renaissance paintings must be Titian's "The flaying of Marsyas"which shows the god Apollo killing the satyr Marsyas by peeling off his skin and there is even a little dog lapping up the blood!Yet Titian makes it look like a pleasant day out in the park!

[@phoebusapollo4677]

Truly exceptional. Thank you!

[@simontemplate]

Super and shared with my great friend Gerardus Johannes.

[@andrewfrost8866]

Faldanar, this is excellent, interesting, entertaining and very informative! You really do bring art and painting to life!! Thank you so much.

[@sibxl1246]

Fantastic!

[@grimfandango6137]

Spot on with your analysis punchline!

[@MountainRaven1960]

17:25 The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Deijman:- the dead with head, the living without.

[@adamsmalec]

waldek has done it again. Opened up my eyes to something I haven't thought about

[@MrDXRamirez]

So clever of Rembrandt to make a painting a story teller. The elements of screen writing is present this early in art history in this great artist. His corpse is the establishing shot that sets the story and yanks me into the plot in the room told by the Doctor flaying the arm. I end up thinking of my own mortality that I may be next from the way those guys stare at me looking in.

[@supremereader7614]

That was a beautiful video like so many of your videos. You do such a good job with nearly all of them.

[@shinjanmitra2709]

Beautiful❤

[@rebeccao8895]

If you ever have the chance to attend a Body Worlds’ exhibit do it! It’s extraordinary.

[@p3t3rjhackett]

That was absolutely Faldamar! Thanuszczak very much.

[@aaronjaben7913]

noice

[@MargaRitaForgotter7]

Bravo!! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@AnnabelleBeaudoin]

Great video 👍

[@michaelburgess9707]

We still have the interest in looking at the dissected body. I attended an exhibit in Dallas called Body Works which looked similar to the one in this film. They were skinned and I guess injected with some sort of plastic and then the bodies were placed in various poses. Leonardo and Michelangelo actually did the dissections. Thanks.

[@daniellehardenberg2745]

The exhibition in this film is Body Works. Professor Gunther Van Hagens that speaks in the film invented plastination and is the creator of the Body Works exhibition.

[@goodboybuddy1]

I love this guy

[@jimgordon6629]

Absolutely fascinating, if a grim picture of the hidden propensities of humans. I am reminded that among the other popular entertainments of our ancestors (and not that long ago) were mummy unwrappings

[@specteramber]

The dutch are a sensible bunch, probably because of this history of public dissections. It could have had a similar effect to the Buddhist emphasis on mortality and decomposition, humbling and, at the same time soothing, because there's nothing worse than the unknown, so exploring the inner workings of a dead body can very well extinguish some of the death and health anxiety that's naturally present in us

[@TimGreig]

Whenever I see Gunther Von Hagens...I shiver

[@passage2enBleu]

Yes, and the irony that Dr Tulp is pulling the 'strings', reminding us that there may be other agents at work in motivating the actions. As I once read someone comment: the mind is a marvelous machine that can be operated by a ghost.

[@Jobby1975]

Glowing like readybreak. brilliant :P

[@PURPLE_SHADE_SMOOTHIE]

Dzenkuje. Sto Lat!

[@Zeldarw104]

Wow!! Very enjoyable art lesson.🤔🙂

[@mrsbluesky8415]

Yes thanks for the reminder lol. Another great explanation of art that I never even knew could exist.

[@jackrusty9425]

Waldemar is the man !!! A pint on me if I ever run into you, You tell a great story...this one's creepy

[@medicalantiques]

Correct and the title really should be "The Physiology Lesson of Dr. Tulp." Note that Dr. Tulp is referring to an anatomy text in the right lower corner of the painting which is probably the great "de Humani Corporis" (1543) by Andreas Vesalius and his early portrait page where Vesalius is dissecting the same area of the forearm of his cadaver.

[@fahrettinresul2790]

teşekkürler!!.

[@Nesty9]

theres something about art and death im always attracted to

[@twiley3530]

I can't imagine going on a date to an autopsy. Hilarious grotesque.

[@ronaldalbertansley579]

that so very crazy !

[@hagfish_]

6:54 Narrator: Leiden, not much of a town these days Leiden: Fuck my drag, right?

[@donnafiori2565]

that dead guy used that muscle being shown to better pinch items...and look what that got him!

[@Leo-V]

I feel Rembrandt and Clive Barker would have alot in common and got along after seeing those bizarre looking skeletons

[@user-ge8yn4ql4i]

Rembrandt's the man!

[@jennamills9444]

i think you guys make the best documentaries ever dyaknowatamean

[@josedejesus9172]

do the modern arts next Mr. Valdemar

[@k-dramagoodmorningseoul]

Hi. How are you? , Since Corona, ordinary daily life is more precious than ever. Now that it's winter, I hope there's no more damage.

[@christopherstclair3297]

When you consider that anatomical / dissection work was forbidden just a hundred years before (approximately), you can imagine the new passion not just to perform dubious medical jobs but simply TO KNOW who we are, what we look like, what is inside us... I can think of this passion among medics or painters as today's equal to the desire to go and explore the cosmos.

[@MeganFoldenauer]

So, I have a quibble. I am an anatomical artist (albeit in America) and I have been allowed to dissect, be IN dissections, and attend surgery, Professor Hagens.

[@helpyourcattodrive]

Where Waldemar goes, I go.

[@ericdonalson7276]

Old day skillshare! 🤓

[@ohmyblindman]

And Ver Meer's woman with pearl earring gets passed by without even a nod at 11:55. That's some museum.

[@hansolo2121]

Allan Heyges Ver Meer? Who is that? Do you mean Vermeer? As in 'Johannes Vermeer'?

[@ohmyblindman]

@@hansolo2121 Ver Meer, Vermeer, Potayto, Potahto. You knew about whom I was speaking.

[@JiveDadson]

I think the guy at the bottom left was added late, perhaps by a different hand.

[@jenniferjuniper97]

Dear Mr. Januszczak: What do you think of the 'Real Bodies' show provided by a Chinese Dalian-based firm? Is it art? Or merely anatomy lesson props? does the preparation of so many actual human corpses for public exhibition violate ethical and moral 'boundaries' of humanity?

[@EricaNernie]

I'm reminded of Francis Bacon's scarier works.

[@rodneykinnaird640]

75%=lost on 2nd surgery painting

[@nickwabd9877]

Does anyone know the year this was originally broadcasted ?

[@mutinyonthekitkat]

2004 I think.

[@nickwabd9877]

@@mutinyonthekitkat Vermeer’s girl with pearl earring has a much more prominent place in the museum now a days (only) 16 years later

[@islandbirdw]

Some people will donate their body to science and must often well known medical schools for them to dissect.

[@horrorhabit8421]

So what if you left your body to be dissected by a particular artist, and said as much in your will. Could it be legally done then?

[@markusakira3286]

Prof Gunther Von Hagens, Anatomist and part time Josef Beuys impersonator.

[@specteramber]

I don't know if I'd call keeping the arm for 35 years 'hoarding', what are you supposed to do with an arm in a jar, anyway? You can't put in the trash, it would be weird, could give someone a heart attack. You could bury it, I guess?

[@JB-yo1fo]

I think he painted the Coat Robber, They wanted to know how a Robbers Hand Works, i bet they believed they would find something that would make a Hand Rob.,

[@metteholm4833]

Nothing strange about the fascination of death and dissection. Death was lurking everywhere and medical science still didn´ t know an awful lot. What IS a bit funny though, is the depiction of skeletons in "contraposto" and other decorative positions.

[@hooraayy]

3:33 to see him in this kind of video u_u

[@ginacrusco234]

Waldemar is almost always provocative (holding lizards, eating unusual items), and this is no exception. I don't see any real value added by the flayed humans in almost every scene. Are we to be ashamed that we don't relish the sight the way the 17th century Dutch did? But ok -- he got our attention and taught us something about Rembrandt.

[@kittybyrne4082]

Who the heck is Rembrandt van Ryan ?

[@cw4608]

Is that Dobie the house elf’s skeleton behind you? On a more serious note I wonder how the Nazi’s didn’t end up with all his art.

[@deontaekurtz6800]

Damn

[@user-qe7vr1qb9g]

OMG

[@gijsv8419]

It is not pronounced as Moritz, but Maurits. Like Mauritius:-)

[@nanettew4398]

What a strange, sensationalist and warped vision on art ...... and accentuating his views with amazingly biased opinions....... Reading through the reactions it is also amazing how this populistische approach is appealing to so many .....

[@wotanwanderer9539]

Bring back public dissections !!!

[@ClariceAust]

Ewe..

[@b_c1701]

It’s just art dude

[@fruitcakedrifter1286]

The presenter is full of it!

[@alexcarter2542]

14:25 "Today no artist, whether in England or in Europe is allowed to disect a cadaver; I think it's a shame." WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YA CREEPY DUTCH WEIRDO?!?!?! GOD that guy gives me the CREEPS... Now I perfectly understand Austin Power's prejudice...

[@studiosandi]

Couldn't watch all of this one🤮

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

It may be Rembrandt but these pieces are disgusting. Ewwww. Sorry.

[@dnlgrmn7169]

Just look at the other ones he painted then.

[@Johannes_Brahms65]

No need to be cynical about the Dutch. It's not my fault I was born in Holland!

[@opinionday0079]

I would not want any of his painting anywhere near me. All miserable and gloomy. I wouldn't mind the money though.

[@betapicts]

Wikipedia stuff

[@alanlawrence2954]

How the hell does a competent film director tell his cameraman to wave the camera around and make the audience dizzy...? Even when focusing on a Rembrandt masterwork. Does one wave their heads around like a drunk when looking at a painting in a gallery...? I detest this hand held drunk as a lord style... I can't even stand it in an action, or horror movie. I ducked out after the first ten minutes... my head swimming.

[@jaym3064]

I can’t get past the over-the-top exaggerated tone of the narrator. It’s self serving and annoying. I’ll go find a more sincere and less sensationalized documentary about Rembrandt

[@vranco]

Ha, Ha. Full of crap. Better get your facts right, I would say!

[@ChrisAcheson]

Boring af