Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

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Cupid Shoots Arrow at Bust of Polia

NARRATIVE G4v · p.448
Cupid Shoots Arrow at Bust of Polia
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Cupid with bow shoots arrow at bust/figure. Venus seated on clouds at right. The very last woodcut in the HP.

In the Narrative

The final image of the HP: Cupid looses his arrow at Polia's image as the dream dissolves. Venus watches from her celestial throne. The reader is returned to waking life.

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