| Ref No | WIA GC/27709 |
| Title | Warburg, Aby to Bayersdorfer, Adolph 20/04/1891 |
| Writer | Warburg, Aby |
| Place1 | [Hamburg], Mittelweg 17 |
| Recipient | [Bayersdorfer, Adolph] |
| Institution2 | Conservator |
| Place2 | [Munich] |
| Date | 20/04/1891 |
| Format | manuscript, draft and photocopy of letter in Warburg Haus |
| Contents | hopes that [Adolph] Bayersdorfer remembers Warburg as one of the students with whom he spent many an evening in Florence in the winter semester 1888/89; Warburg has chosen Botticelli's paintings 'Birth of Venus' and 'Primavera' for his PhD topic; poses two questions in connection with Bayersdorfer's explanation of 'Venus' re Mercury and Vasari's information that the paintings have been kept in Villa Castello; what is the source for the statement that originally the paintings have been kept in Villa Careggi? |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/76 | Bayersdorfer; Adolph (1842-1901) | 1842-1901 |