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La hypnerotomachia di Polifili

(Italian, 1433–1527)
(Italian, 1449/50–1515)
1545
Place of PublicationVenice, Italy
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with 170 woodcuts
DimensionsOverall: 32.1 x 21.8 x 3.6 cm (12 5/8 x 8 9/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Horatio Greenough Curtis in memory of her husband Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession number27.1414
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description
Venice: sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545
ProvenanceHoratio G. Curtis (pencil inscr. on front endpaper, "H.G. Curtis Paris 1902 f400"; Mrs. Curtis, by whom bequeathed to MFA, June 2 and July 21, 1927.
Folio e1 recto
Francesco Colonna
1499
Monte delle Oratione (Mountain of Prayer)
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1496
Restricted
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
About 1492–94
Epistole evangeli (Epistles and Gospels)
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1560
Folio Y7recto
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1498
fol. c6v: "Orpheus Charming the Animals"
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
about 1500
Meditationi sopra la Passione
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
about 1495
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1529
Speculum humanae salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation)
Unidentified artist, Netherlandish, 15th century
About 1471–73