Professor Christoph Frank, Università della Svizzera italiana Christoph Frank received his PhD in the History of the Classical Tradition from the Warburg Institute in 1993. Since 2005 he has been Professor of the History and Theory of Art and Architecture at the Università della Svizzera italiana, where in 2011 he founded the Istituto di Storia e Teoria dell'Arte e dell'Architettura. He specializes in eighteenth-century European art and is currently one of the three main applicants of a...

Peter Burke (Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, University of Cambridge) Jonathan Jones (Art critic for The Guardian and former judge of the Turner Prize) Martin Ruehl (Senior Lecturer in German History and Thought, University of Cambridge)

Speaker: Glyn Davies, Museum of London

Speaker: Adam Lowe, Factum Arte, Madrid

On 20 April 2018, the Warburg Institute (in conjunction with the Cervantes Institute) will host an event on books and readers in the Spanish-speaking world, with the theme 'The Book as World, the World as Book'. The day will culminate in a conversation between Alberto Manguel, Director of the National Library of Argentina, and Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg.

Tessa Murdoch, Victoria and Albert Museum Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern - Lecture Series Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the surviving art objects, thanks to ever developing research questions and methodologies. This topic helps us to think about the agents and their networks...

Speaker: Manuel Arias, Museo Nacional da Escultura, Valladolid Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern - Lecture Series Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the surviving art objects, thanks to ever developing research questions and methodologies. This topic helps us to think about the...

The Warburg Institute Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Keynote address Penny Jolly (Skidmore College)

The Warburg Institute Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Keynote address Penny Jolly (Skidmore College)

The Warburg Institute 'Divine proportion' in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Carpaccio and Luca Pacioli Paul Hills (Professor Emeritus, The Courtauld Institute of Art) Venetian painting around 1500 is marked by a distinctive geometry. In this lecture, Professor Paul Hills explores the synergy between the artistic Euclidian culture of the Venetian Republic, broadly from the arrival of Giorgio Valla in 1481 through to the publication of Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione in 1509....

The Warburg Institute 'Divine proportion' in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Carpaccio and Luca Pacioli Paul Hills (Professor Emeritus, The Courtauld Institute of Art) Venetian painting around 1500 is marked by a distinctive geometry. In this lecture, Professor Paul Hills explores the synergy between the artistic Euclidian culture of the Venetian Republic, broadly from the arrival of Giorgio Valla in 1481 through to the publication of Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione in 1509....

Warburg Institute Concepts of 'Nachleben'. Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gundolf and Julius von Schlosser as Book Collectors Michael Thimann (Professor of History of Art, Georg-August-University Göttingen) This lecture focusses on three charismatic scholars – Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gundolf and Julius von Schlosser – who developed their own specialist libraries to use as research tools. A comparison between these three scholars, two art historians and a literary scholar, offers new...

Warburg Institute Concepts of 'Nachleben'. Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gundolf and Julius von Schlosser as Book Collectors Michael Thimann (Professor of History of Art, Georg-August-University Göttingen) This lecture focusses on three charismatic scholars – Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gundolf and Julius von Schlosser – who developed their own specialist libraries to use as research tools. A comparison between these three scholars, two art historians and a literary scholar, offers new...

Warburg Institute Early Faces Professor Ludwig Morenz (University of Bonn) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and its cultural values, this lecture series seeks to explore the origins of art in...

Warburg Institute Early Faces Professor Ludwig Morenz (University of Bonn) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and its cultural values, this lecture series seeks to explore the origins of art in...

Warburg Institute The Origin of Symbolic Material Culture. What does the Archaeological Record say? Professor Francesco d'Errico (University of Bordeaux) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and...

Warburg Institute The Origin of Symbolic Material Culture. What does the Archaeological Record say? Professor Francesco d'Errico (University of Bordeaux) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and...

Warburg Institute Environment versus culture: Rock Art in the Context of Holocene Climatic change Dr Maria Guagnin (University of Oxford) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and its cultural...

Warburg Institute Environment versus culture: Rock Art in the Context of Holocene Climatic change Dr Maria Guagnin (University of Oxford) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and its cultural...

Warburg Institute Human Art: The First 30,000 Years. New Perspectives on Palaeolithic Cave Art and the First Known Images Professor Paul Pettitt (Durham University) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image...

Warburg Institute Human Art: The First 30,000 Years. New Perspectives on Palaeolithic Cave Art and the First Known Images Professor Paul Pettitt (Durham University) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image...

Warburg Institute Contemporary Image Conflicts: Violence and Iconoclasm from Charlie Hebdo to Daesh Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan) ISIS, Truculent Iconophilia, and Extinguishing the Gray Zone Workshop organised by the Warburg Institute in conjunction with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project.

Warburg Institute The Shock of the Old. Art in the European Ice Age Dr Jill Cook (British Museum) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and its cultural values, this lecture series seeks to explore...

Warburg Institute The Shock of the Old. Art in the European Ice Age Dr Jill Cook (British Museum) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and its cultural values, this lecture series seeks to explore...