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