De re anatomica libri XV
Realdo Colombo's De re anatomica libri XV is a 1559 Latin anatomy treatise printed in Venice by Nicolò Bevilacqua for physicians and medical students. Its pictures are black-and-white woodcuts: a crowded dissection scene under an arched architectural frame, a dense opening page of Latin text with a historiated initial, and a small caduceus-like emblem with a serpent and two clasping hands. A designer might draw on the framed Renaissance title-page composition and the compact emblematic ornament.
