Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

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Architectural Portal

ARCHITECTURAL c3r · p.38
Architectural Portal
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Grand classical portal with pediment, columns, and medallion busts. Monumental entrance architecture.

In the Narrative

A monumental doorway representing the threshold between different zones of Poliphilo's journey. The architectural vocabulary draws on Roman triumphal arch tradition.

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