Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

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Lion, Dog, Dragon Devour Victims

NARRATIVE C8r · p.391
Lion, Dog, Dragon Devour Victims
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Woodland scene: lion, dog, and dragon devour victims while Cupid flies above with torch and arrows.

In the Narrative

The most violent image in the HP: beasts destroy those who defy love. Cupid oversees from above, combining infantile form with terrible power.

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