In fact, there’s a good case for saying that they were the brainchild of Aby Warburg, a German art lover who gathered images from thousands of books and photographs more than a century before ...

The exhibit begins in 1909, when Aby Warburg, the German art historian for whom the institute is named, began collecting tarot decks and books on the history of magic. Warburg’s interest in ...

The oft-told tale of Aby Warburg goes like this: born in 1866 as the eldest son (“scion” is the favored term among Warburg chroniclers) of a prominent Hamburg banking family, Aby abdicated his future ...

The mystery and beauty of the tarot card are being explored in a London exhibition at the moment, with cards on display ...

The institute was founded by Aby Warburg 120 years ago to explore the role of images within society. ‘It’s a really pioneering, radical approach to how we study the visual world around us that has ...