Two men examine an open corpse on the dissecting table. The latin inscriptions on the flags read (left) Principium moriendi natalis est (The beginning of death is birth) and (right) Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat (Death renders equal the sceptre and the hoe).

A woman is shown a human skin.

A cabinet of anatomical instruments used in dissections. Above a cherub leans on a skull, holding an hour glass.