| Ref No | WIA GC/1895/4 |
| Title | Dwelshauvers, Jacques to Warburg, Aby 12/08/1895 |
| Writer | Dwelshauvers, Jacques |
| Place1 | Brussels, 63 rue de l'abbaye |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 12/08/1895 |
| Format | manuscript |
| Contents | he will not be surprised to hear from Dwelshauvers before his book on Botticelli is published; discusses a painting in Frankfurt, the head of a woman, which is attributed to Dürer or to an unknown Florentine with the name Bartolomeo Veneziano; would Warburg know anybody who could attribute the painting correctly?; could it have been Leonardo da Vinci?; is enthusiastic about the beautiful painting, 'the mystery of womanhood'; requests to know whether research on the portrait in Palazzo Pitti, usually thought of showing Simonetta Vespucci, has progressed; mentions a Simonetta portrait in Chantilly; what were her relations with Giuliano di Medici and with Botticelli?; on the role of painters painting women in low cut dresses; questions him about a newly discovered Botticelli painting, called Pallas; on the attributes of centaurs; asks him about a Tobias with three angels painting, newly attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio; was it by Bode, in his 'Cicerone'? |
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