The Emblem Shelf
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The First Triumph
A procession of nymphs, cut in wood.
- Work
- from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Maker
- Attributed to Francesco Colonna; anonymous woodcut
- Date
- 1499
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A procession carrying banners and trophies crosses the page under the heading Primus, the first of the triumphs that Poliphilo watches in his dream. The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili was printed by Aldus Manutius in Venice in 1499, and its woodcuts are set into the text so closely that picture and type read as one design. The copy is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many have called it the most beautiful book of the fifteenth century.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The First Triumph printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499), held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
