| Code | DS/UK/2274 |
| Dates | 1872-1940 |
| Person Name | Mesnil/Dwelshauvers; Jean Jacques (1872-1940) |
| Surname | Mesnil/Dwelshauvers |
| Forenames | Jean Jacques |
| Activity | Anarchist and scholar of Florentine Renaissance art. |
| Relationships | Friend of Warburg, Aby; Schubart, Herta. |
| History | Studied Classics and Medicine at university in Brussels, then continued medical study in Bologna; became friends with Aby Warburg (1895) returned to Belgium in 1897; published monograph on Botticelli (1938); fled to monastery ca. 1940 and died there. |
| Source | - "Dwelshauvers, Jean Jacques." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/dwelshauversj/, DoA 04/08/2025.
- Hochmann, Michel, 'Jacques Mesnil’s Botticelli', in Botticelli Past and Present, ed. Ana Debenedetti and Caroline Elam, pp. 218-232 (London: UCL Press, 2019)
- Fritz Saxl, ‘Three “Florentines”: Herbert Horne, Aby Warburg, Jacques Mesnil’, in Fritz Saxl, Lectures, pp. 331–44. (London: The Warburg Institute, 1957), vol. I. |
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