Sep 23, 2020 | Aby Warburg, Events and Exhibitions, History of the Warburg
This autumn Warburg’s original working materials for his legendary Bilderatlas Mnemosyne have returned to Germany in two very special exhibitions. For the first time since 1929, all 63 panels of the Bilderatlas have been reconstructed using Warburg’s original...
Jan 16, 2020 | Events and Exhibitions
Gastronomy collections in the Getty Research Institute and Warburg Institute Libraries The exhibition, Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800, at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, presents different approaches to understanding the history and...
Dec 12, 2019 | Events and Exhibitions, History of the Warburg
This December, you can visit a display at the Warburg Institute arranged by students of the Institute’s MA programmes, Clementine Bowring, Hannah Clapinson, Tereze Lujane and Helena Rutkowska, along with Eckart Marchand (Bilderfahrzeuge Research Group /...
Oct 17, 2019 | Events and Exhibitions, History of the Warburg, Resources, Studying
July 2019 saw the first edition of the Warburg Institute Summer School take place. The inaugural summer school was dedicated to the work of Aby Warburg and his picture atlas Mnemosyne. Over the course of five days, participants were introduced to exemplary panels from...
Oct 3, 2019 | Events and Exhibitions
The Nachleben and the Cultural Memory of Ancient Egypt conference took place at the Warburg Institute in December 2018. The event reflected on the current state of the research into the pre-Egyptological conceptualisation, visualisation and materialisation of...
Aug 14, 2019 | Events and Exhibitions, Research
The ‘Paper Museum’ is a collection of around 10,000 watercolours, drawings and prints, assembled during the seventeenth century by the famous Roman patron and collector, Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657), and his younger brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606–89). It...
