| Ref No | WIA GC/12490 |
| Title | Warburg, Aby to Bode, Wilhelm von 07/05/1920 |
| Writer | Warburg, Aby |
| Recipient | Bode, Wilhelm von |
| Place2 | Charlottenburg, Uhlandstrasse 4 |
| Date | 07/05/1920 |
| Format | typescript |
| Contents | thanks him for his interest in his early work on Botticelli; Warburg's bookdealer in Berlin, Julius Springer, will forward a copy of Warburg's Botticelli book to von Bode; it is not impossible that the young man in the painting of the 'Adoration' is Botticelli's self-portrait; compares it with Filippino Lippi's 'Coronation of the Virgin'; Herbert P. Horne had collected materials for a second book on Botticelli; was a self-torturing, slow worker; Horne was an architect and not an art historian by training, lacking 'academic fantasy'; he could not understand how 'the cult of Simonetta' is related to 'the realm of Venus', a relationship which Warburg has no doubts about |
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| DS/UK/308 | Horne; Herbert Percy (1864-1919) | 1864-1919 |
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