Roswitha Stewering Unreviewed (LLM_ASSISTED)
Roswitha Stewering's 2000 study in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians analyzes the HP's architectural representations as sophisticated engagements with classical building practice. She demonstrates that the HP's descriptions of columns, arches, and thermae reflect genuine knowledge of the Vitruvian tradition and contemporary architectural theory, not merely literary fantasy.
Works in Archive
The Relationship between World, Landscape and Polia in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Stewering proposes that the lengthy architectural and landscape ekphrases in the HP, often dismissed as digressions, are structurally and philosophically integral to the love narrative. She argues that descriptions of architecture and nature mirror the stages of the lovers' rapprochement, culminating at the fountain of Venus, and reads Polia not as an allegory of antiquity or wisdom but as a microcosmic embodiment of benevolent Mother Nature. Drawing on Bredekamp's critique of Neoplatonic readings and his Aristotelian counter-framework, the article challenges dominant interpretive traditions in HP scholarship.
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Architectural Representations in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
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