Leonardo's "remarkable medical abomination" : an unpublished letter by Ottilie von Goethe

Author

Marmor, Max

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Achademia Leonardi Vinci. 1988, Vol. 1, p. 96-104, 9 ill.

ISSN

0394-8501

Abstract (en)

Presents new evidence from the diary and correspondence of Ottilie von Goethe establishing that a letter in which she describes a drawing by Leonardo was written in the fall of 1857 to August Grahl, and that the drawing in question, then in Grahl's collection, could not be the "fugitive" sheet of anatomical drawings in the Schlossmuseum, Weimar, originally in the collection at Windsor Castle. [Appendix with transcriptions of the letter and the diary excerpt.]

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Italy
• Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
• Drawing
• Italy
• 1400-1600
• Anatomical Studies
• Goethe, Ottilie von, 1796-1872
• Grahl, August, 1791-1868
• Collections
• Correspondence
• Anatomy
• Representation
• Collectors
• Germany
• Iconography
• Windsor Castle, Royal Library||Windsor (Berks, GBR)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Italie
• Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
• Dessin
• Italie
• 1400-1600
• Etudes anatomiques
• Goethe, Ottilie von, 1796-1872
• Grahl, August, 1791-1868
• Collections
• Correspondance
• Anatomie
• Représentation
• Collectionneurs
• Allemagne
• Iconographie
• Windsor Castle, Royal Library||Windsor (Berks, GBR)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910701-00454403

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