Poliphilo looking through a bower at Polia, who approaches from a distance. “She had such a presence and charming elegance that perhaps even amorous Idalia did not appear thus to warlike Mars, nor the handsome shepherd Adonis to her, nor the delicate Ganymede to almighty and inflamed Jupiter, nor beautiful Psyche to ardent Cupid”.
Featured on PDR in the essay Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Architecture of Dreams
With its otherworldly woodcuts and ornate descriptions of imagined architecture, _Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_ brims with an obsessive and erotic fixation on form. Demetra Vogiatzaki accompanies the hero as he wanders the pages of this quattrocento marvel, at once a story of lost love and a fever dream of antiquity.
Also appearing in the essay…
Poliphilo looking through a bower at Polia
Date
1499
From
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
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