Poliphilo surrounded by remains of classical antiquity. A ferocious wolf eyes him with its jaws agape.

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.

Poliphilo surrounded by remains of classical antiquity

Date

1499

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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili


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