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Warburg and Luther - Word | Image in Times of Crisis - 1517, 1917, 2017
The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events on ‘Warburg and Luther - Word | Image in Times of Crisis - 1517, 1917, 2017’ to mark both the fifth hundred anniversary of the Reformation and the hundredth anniversary of Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Martin Luther.
A Vision for Europe: British Art and the Mediterranean
The Warburg Institute and the Bilderfahrzeuge group, based at the Warburg, collaborated with Central St Martins on a three day public research project A Vision for Europe: British Art and the Mediterranean. The ongoing collaboration examined the archive material from the original English Art and the Mediterranean exhibition held in London in 1941.
Free Public Lecture Series.
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Aby Warburg 150. Work. Legacy. Promise.
The Warburg Institute celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aby Warburg with a conference dedicated to his work and heritage.
Recordings of the proceedings can be found here our youtube channel
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Siobhan Davies Dance, in association with the Warburg Institute, presents an ambitious new installation currently on national tour exploring what and how the body knows and communicates - in relationship to the work of Aby Warburg. To find out more click here.
The Enriqueta Harris Frankfort Bequest - the notes, papers, letters and photographs of Enriqueta Harris Frankfort, Curator of the Photographic Collection
Two new Warburg Colloquia publications out now: Petrarch’s Famous Men in the Early Renaissance and Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy
Anna McSweeney (Warburg Institute/ Bilderfahrzeuge) talks on the Alhambra Cupola's poetry, which forms an integral part of this fourteenth-century wooden ceiling that once was part of the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, and is now in the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin. Click here to listen to the podcast.
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A review of "Domestic devotions. The place of piety in the Italian renaissance home 1400-1600" appeared in la Difesa del Popolo and in can be found here (in Italian).
Professor Ann Blair, Henri Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University
Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli - BBC3 Sunday Feature
Acclaimed author and game writer, Naomi Alderman , brings to life the long-overlooked tale of how art historian Giovanni Morelli (1816-1891) formulated a new theory of attribution in the visual arts - through his close analysis of detail. In discussion amongst others with former Warburg Institute Director David Freedberg
Alumnus Rick Scorza, Art Historian and Renaissance Scholar, has been elected member and Accademico Onorevole of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno -"the World's Oldest Academy" . Rick studied Classics and Art History at Cambridge for his first degree, followed by an MPhil, and a PhD at the Warburg Institute, University of London (1987).
The Warburg's Alessandro Scafi has been discussing 'Maps of Paradis' in Norway's Vårt Land newspaper