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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy Back to main page for this exhibition Back to images from this exhibition Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream of Poliphilo) Couple Embracing (Book 2, C5V) Venice: Aldus Manutius, December 1499 Printed book with woodcut illustrations; design of woodcuts attributed to Benedetto Bordone (Padua, ca. 1455/60–Padua, 1530) Bound volume: 11 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. (29 x 21.5 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1923 (23.73.1)

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