Juan Valverde de Amusco (ca. 1525–ca. 1588), Vivae imagines partium corporis humani aereis formis expressae. Book 2, plate 1

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1566

Whilst most of the plates in Valverde’s work were derived from those of Vesalius, there are four original illustrations, including this striking image of a flayed man holding up his own skin.

Keynes.P.7.6

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