Juan Valverde de Amusco, Anatomia del corpo humano, Rome: A. Salamanca and A. Lafrery; Venice: N. Beuilacqua 1560, frontispiece, engraving, 21.8 x 14.7 cm, Keynes.T.7.11.

Juan de Valverde (c. 1520-c. 1588) studied anatomy at Padua under Vesalius and Colombo, accompanied Colombo to Pisa as an assistant and then to Rome. He first published History of the composition of the human body in 1556 (in Spanish, with engravings copied from the Fabrica. This Italian edition printed in 1560 uses the same engravings.

This architectural frontispiece shows an oval bearing the title of the work, Anatomy of the human body, held up by two skeletons. Above the roundel is a skull flanked by a monkey and a pig, frequently dissected in lieu of humans. At the foot of the roundel are two more skulls and a sand-clock, an obvious reference to death.

The centre of the base shows a scene of public dissection, with a man in front of a male cadaver, surrounded by two rows of onlookers; those in the first row are seated. One man sits to the right of the cadaver with a book with text. This scene thus appears to be presenting a debate by comparing the body and the text. To the right of this image is another dissection scene with fewer onlookers, perhaps indicating a private dissection. The cadaver is that of a female, with her arm drooped. To the left is the scene of a man drawing from an articulated skeleton, propped up with a stick and an assistant. The man appears to be interested in the hand, perhaps another reference to the importance of the hand.