Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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Tree Clipped in Ring-shape

DECORATIVE t4r · p.295
Tree Clipped in Ring-shape
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Topiary: tree shaped into a ring or circular form on ornamental base with pedestal.

In the Narrative

The first of the HP's remarkable topiary illustrations, showing nature bent to geometric form.

Source: LLM_ASSISTED · HIGH