Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0062061

Zusammenfassung

In 1499 Aldus printed the most ambitious book of the Italian Renaissance: the 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili' by Francesco Colonna. In an invented idiom, blending Latin, Greek and Italian, and through over 160 xylographs the HP recounts its protagonist's amorous errors while he seeks his beloved within a dream landscape of antique myths and monuments - whose every detail is described and thoroughly analysed. Since everything beheld dwarfs its ancient models and contemporary counterparts, the HP becomes an illustrated textbook on how to realize an 'artificial space' which impresses its 'vis...