Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Accession Number: 
94384
Order Title: 
Plants in Garden History
Type of View: 
detail
View Title: 
view of a scene with a flower-covered pergola
Image description: 
Depicts a scene from a dream of an imaginary garden with a simple timber-framed pergola and timber fence backed by a tall row of cypresses and a shallow fountain.
Image Rights: 
copyrighted
Source Institution: 
NCSU Libraries
Collection: 
Design Library Image Collection
Culture: 
Italian
Subject: 
fonts (type composition equipment)
Subject: 
typefaces (type forms)
Work Types: 
Information Forms; books
Preferred Title: 
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Agent Display: 
Aldus Manutius (Italian printer, ca. 1450-1515); Francesco Colonna (Italian author, ca. 1433-1527)
Date: 
1499 (creation)
Measurement: 
12.5 x 8.25 in ()
Locations: 
Venice, Veneto, Italy
Location Type: 
(creation)
Locations: 
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Location Type: 
(repository)
Style/Period: 
Renaissance
Classification: 
Graphic Design