The Emblem Shelf
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Panton Tokadi
A carved relief, in a book of dreams.
- 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
Inside a carved temple frame, a satyr draws back the branches of a tree over a sleeping woman with two children beside her, and the inscription below reads ΠΑΝΤΩΝ ΤΟΚΑΔΙ, to the mother of all. The page comes from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the strife of love in a dream, printed by Aldus Manutius in Venice in December 1499. The book's woodcuts, by an unknown artist, are among the most admired in the history of printing, and this one shows why: a whole carved monument in a few clean lines.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Panton Tokadi 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.
