After falling asleep on the couch, Poliphilo finds himself on a broad and wild plain. Seeking shelter, he grows drowsy once again, and enters a dream within the dream.
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.
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After falling asleep on the couch, Poliphilo finds himself on a broad and wild plain
Date
1499
From
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
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