Valverde de Amusco, Juan, approximately 1525-approximately 1588

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Name (Latin)
Valverde de Amusco, Juan, approximately 1525-approximately 1588
Other forms of name
Valverde de Amusco, Juan, ca. 1525-ca. 1588 a
De Amusco, Juan Valverde, ca. 1525-ca. 1588
Amusco, Juan Valverde de, ca. 1525-ca. 1588
Valverde de Hamusco, Ioan, ca. 1525-ca. 1588
Hamusco, Ioan Valverde de, ca. 1525-ca. 1588
Valverde, Juan, ca. 1525-ca. 1588
Valverde de Hamusco, Juan, ca. 1525-ca. 1588
Hamusco, Juan Valverde de, ca. 1525-ca. 1588
Valverdus, Ioannes, ca. 1525-ca. 1588
Date of birth
1525
Date of death
1588
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 41954371
Wikidata: Q969391
Library of congress: n 83237454
OCoLC: oca01038104
Sources of Information
  • His Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano de Juan Valverde de Amusco, 1981:t.p. (Juan Valverde de Amusco) add. t.p. (Ioan de Valverde de Hamusco)
  • Riera, J. Valverde y la anatomía del Renacimiento, 1981:p. 7 (Juan Valverde; b. ca. 1525, Amusco, Palencia) p. 10 (d. ca. 1588)
  • Encic. univ. ilus.(Valverde de Amusco ó Hamusco, Juan; 16th cent. physician, anatomist; b. Amusco, Palencia; caption: Ioannes Valverdus)
  • Esperabe Arteaga, E. Dic. encic. ilus. y crít. de los hombres de España, 1957:(Valverde de Amusco, Juan)
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Wikipedia description:

Juan Valverde de Amusco (or "de Hamusco") (c. 1525-?) was born in the Crown of Castille in what is now Spain c. 1525 and studied medicine in Padua and Rome under Realdo Columbo and Bartolomeo Eustachi. He published several works on anatomy, including De animi et corporis sanitate tuenda libellus (Paris, 1552). Valverde's most famous work was Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano, first published in Rome, 1556. All but four of its 42 engraved copperplate illustrations were taken almost directly from Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius bitterly commented on Valverde's plagiarism, accusing him of having performed very few dissections himself. Occasionally, however, Valverde corrected Vesalius' images, as in his depictions of the muscles of the eyes, nose, and larynx. One of Valverde's most striking original plates is that of a muscle figure holding his own skin in one hand and a knife in the other, which has been likened to Saint Bartholomew in The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) of the Sistine Chapel. The original illustrations were most likely drawn by Gaspar Becerra (1520–1570), a contemporary of Michelangelo, and the copperplate engravings are thought to have been carried out by Nicolas Beatrizet (1507?-1570?), whose initials "NB" appear on several of the plates.

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