Valverde's most unforgettable plate shows a flayed man standing, a knife in one hand and his own removed skin hanging from the other — a direct echo of Michelangelo's St. Bartholomew in the Sistine Chapel, painted only a few years earlier and a few streets away. It is anatomy that knows it is also art: the figure does not merely demonstrate the musculature, he presents it, and stares back at the viewer across five centuries. The gesture is Renaissance Rome's, and the nerve is entirely Valverde's.

Maker: Juan Valverde de Amusco
Date: 1556
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Published Rome, 1556 · Wellcome Collection
Credit: Published Rome, 1556 · Wellcome Collection
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00937

As chosen: 12 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	12 x 18 in
Outside size	13.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	266	Excellent	Trimmed 6.6%
11 x 14 in	207	Excellent	Trimmed 9.1%
12 x 16 in	190	Good	Trimmed 4.8%
12 x 18 in	177	Good	Trimmed 6.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 24 in	133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	126 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 36 in	88 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	76 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 2,285 x 3,200 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 57, lights 248 of 255; 0.4% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 156.45