Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons

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The Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons was a professional medical guild in the Dutch Golden Age that regulated surgical practice in Amsterdam and famously commissioned Rembrandt’s group portrait "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp."


Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf early modern corporation
medical guild
professional guild
activity examination of surgeons
regulation of medical standards for surgery
training of surgeons
associatedWith Dutch Golden Age art
civic culture of Amsterdam
basedInBuilding Waag (Amsterdam weighing house)
collected fines for violating guild rules
membership fees
commissionedArtist Rembrandt van Rijn
commissionedWork The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
commissionedYear 1632
country Dutch Republic
dissolvedReason abolition of guild system in the Netherlands
field medicine
surgery
floruit 17th century
governedBy guild regulations
grantedRight right to practice surgery in Amsterdam
right to train surgical apprentices
hasLanguage Dutch
hasMember Amsterdam surgeons
Nicolaes Tulp
hasPurpose control of entry into the surgical profession
maintenance of surgical standards
protection of professional interests of surgeons
historicalRole institutionalization of surgery as a profession in Amsterdam
integration of surgery into urban governance
influenced regulation of medical practice in Amsterdam
legacy iconic representation in Rembrandt’s group portrait
important source for history of surgery in the Dutch Republic
location Amsterdam
operatesInPeriod Dutch Golden Age
organized anatomy lessons
public anatomical demonstrations
partOf Amsterdam civic guild system
regulates surgeons in Amsterdam
surgical practice in Amsterdam
subjectOf The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
supervised surgical apprenticeships
typeOfMembership apprentices
masters
usedFacility anatomical theatre in the Waag
usedSymbol emblems related to surgery and anatomy

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
commissionedBy
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp ("Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons members")
depicts
Nicolaes Tulp
memberOf
Nicolaes Tulp ("praelector anatomiae of the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons")
positionHeld

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