Cover of Bathsheba's breast

Bathsheba's breast

by James Stuart Olson

2002 302 pages eng

In 1967, an Italian surgeon touring Amsterdam's Rijks museum stopped in front of Rembrandt's Bathsheba at the Well, on loan from the Louvre, and noticed an asymmetry to Bathsheba's left breast it seemed distended, swollen near the armpit, discolored, and marked with a distinctive pitting. With a lit…

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