Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (/hiːpˌnɛəroʊtəˈmɑːkiːə pəˈliːfəˌliː/; from Ancient Greek ὕπνος hýpnos 'sleep', ἔρως érōs 'love', and μάχη máchē 'fight'), called...
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contained within an extremely rare, and mysterious book, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, which was an incunabulum published in 1499 in Venice, Italy;...
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Dominican priest and monk who was credited with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by an acrostic formed by initial letters of the text. He lived...
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Liane Lefaivre thinks they are illustrations of the romance novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Perhaps they were meant as a foil to the perfect symmetry and...
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Renaissance depiction is one of the many woodcut illustrations to Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a book published in Venice in 1499. This shows Leda and the Swan...
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collected works, Pietro Bembo's Asolani, Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, and Dante's Divine Comedy. The 1501 publication of Virgil introduced...
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(along with the monk Francesco Colonna) with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by an acrostic in the text; also believed to have written the...
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Petrach's Triomphi (1374) being extremely influential, for example on Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499). This had woodcut illustrations, and such scenes were very...
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version was used to print Manutius' famous illustrated volume Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Griffo's roman typeface, with several replacements of the capitals...
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he saw to the first German translation of Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Thomas Reiser studied German Medieval Literature, Italian and...
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progress, and one of the hundreds of illustrations to the book the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499 shows Leda and the Swan having sex on top of a triumphal...
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ancient forest came to be known. The forest is also mentioned in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili as the setting for the dream allegory of the work. The German...
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in defense of the authorship of Leon Battista Alberti for the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. March's archives are located at the Canadian Centre for Architecture...
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Petrarch, and the iconography is repeated for example in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna (1499), the Hieroglyphica of Pierio Valeriano...
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aspects of The Nine Doors appear to be heavily inspired by the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Colonna (1499). Key to Captive Thoughts, 1653. A Curious Explanation...
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knowledge". The inspiration for the unusual composition came from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ("Poliphilo's Dream of the Strife of Love"), an unusual 15th century...
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identifying Francesco Colonna as the author of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, identifies passages in Hypnerotomachia depending on Pliny that were enriched by direct...
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Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival, by Hypnerotomachia Poliphili scholar Joscelyn Godwin, discusses pseudoscientific theories about...
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Ariadne seems to derive from Francesco Colonna's allegorical novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, published in Venice in 1499, with a printed illustration of that...
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Dürer's Rhinoceros Emblem books Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Just So Stories Lubok prints Nuremberg Chronicle Japan (Ukiyo-e)...
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occurrence of the term knot garden appears in the Italian text Hypnerotomachia Poliphili which was printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499. This reference and...
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Hartmann Schedel and printed by Anton Koberger in 1493; and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed by Aldus Manutius with important illustrations by an unknown...
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the love story of the famous fifteenth century novel/treatise Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in late twentieth-century terms, a text that has become the source...
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forgeries) Polydore Vergil – Adagia 1499 Francesco Colonna (attrib.) – Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Pierre Desrey – Genealogie de Godefroi de Buillon Thomas of Erfurt...
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connected with the woodcut illustrations to Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (published in Venice in 1499). The landscape on the left, behind...
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connected with a figure in one of the woodcut illustrations to Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499, but a nude of this size, as a single subject, was unprecedented...
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An important and unusual example of mixed-language text is the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna (1499), which was basically written using...
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alternatively, the designer of the woodcut illustrations, of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a strange fantasy novel. Apart from his treatises on the arts...
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a character named "Thelemia" represents will or desire in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of the Dominican friar and writer Francesco Colonna. The protagonist...
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by an observant reader, such as the acrostic contained in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (where the key capital letters are decorated with ornate embellishments)...
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