The Emblem Shelf
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Triumphal Car
A chariot of the gods, with its escort.
- 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
Under the heading Triumphus, a heavy carved chariot rolls past, escorted by marching figures holding up standards. Poliphilo sees a series of such triumphs in his dream, each one a pageant of the loves of the gods. The woodcut comes from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499, printed by Aldus Manutius in the roman type that still shapes book pages today. The artist is unknown, the author probably the friar Francesco Colonna, and the book is a dream from start to finish.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Triumphal Car 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.
