Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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Two Virgins Offering Swans and Doves

NARRATIVE o1v · p.210
Two Virgins Offering Swans and Doves
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Two virgins offering swans and doves for sacrifice at the temple altar. Priestess officiates.

In the Narrative

The sacrifice of birds sacred to Venus. Swans and doves are the traditional animals of the love goddess.

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