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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Written by Francesco Colonna
(Italian, ca. 1453–1517)

Publisher: Published by Aldo Manuzio (Italian, 1449/50–1515)
Designer: Design of woodcuts attributed to Benedetto Bordone (Italian, Padua ca. 1455/60–1530 Padua, active mainly Venice from 1488)
Date: December 1499
Medium: Woodcut
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1923
Accession Number: 23.73.1
Not on view
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  • Provenance

    Donor: J. Pierpont Morgan

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Essling.1198; Morgan cat.II.373; Brunet.IV.778; Hain.5501; Proctor.5574

  • References

    Jean Strouse, The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" J. Pierpont Morgan, Financier and Collector. n.s., 57, no. 3, New York, Winter 2000, fig. no. 2, p. 5, ill.



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