Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

← All Folios

Signature t6r

Folio 150r, Quire t

Folio t6r
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified
Folio t6r
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified

Annotations

MARGINAL_NOTE (1)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Marginal Note
104 On two woodcuts, the annotator specifically added depth and detail to trees. (l3v) depicts a line of nymphs in the process of reverting into their arboreal form. The reader colored in the leaves growing out of their heads, accentuating their transformation. Likewise on (t6r), the annotator added light brown hatching to the trees in order to offer a sense of texture to the bark. The fact that the annotator decided to improve the details of trees, and only trees, would seem to acco...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 115 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Marginal Note
104 On two woodcuts, the annotator specifically added depth and detail to trees. (l3v) depicts a line of nymphs in the process of reverting into their arboreal form. The reader colored in the leaves growing out of their heads, accentuating their transformation. Likewise on (t6r), the annotator added light brown hatching to the trees in order to offer a sense of texture to the bark. The fact that the annotator decided to improve the details of trees, and only trees, would seem to acco...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 115 (Ch. 5)