Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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Box-tree Clipped as Mushroom

DECORATIVE t5r · p.297
Box-tree Clipped as Mushroom
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Topiary: box-tree clipped into mushroom shape on stepped circular pedestal.

In the Narrative

Another topiary design from Venus's gardens, demonstrating the HP's vision of nature as architectural material.

Source: LLM_ASSISTED · HIGH