Research Guides: Research Guide: Art History: Iconography and Aby Warburg

Aby Warburg and Iconography

Sandro Botticelli / Aby Warburg
In: Das Museum : eine Anleitung zum Genuß der Werke bildender Kunst, 3 (1898), Nr. 10. 37-49 (Textheft) + Tafel 74-75.

Aby Warburg and the Warburg Institute

Aby Warburg Bilderatlas Mnemosyne Virtual Exhibition
A complete virtual tour of two exhibitions in Berlin related to Aby Warburg and the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, a collaboration between the Warburg Institute, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 2020.
Warburg Haus, Hamburg
Mnemosyne: Meanderings through Aby Warburg's Atlas
Ten panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas

The last project of the German Jewish “cultural scientist” Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929), the Mnemosyne Atlas is an unfinished attempt to map the pathways that give art history and cosmography their pathos-laden meanings. Warburg thought this visual, metaphoric encyclopedia, with its constellations of symbolic images, would animate the viewer’s memory, imagination, and understanding of what he called “the afterlife of antiquity.”
Warburg Electronic Library Project
Associazione "Warburg Italia"
Crossing the Border: The Current Significance of Warburg's Iconology
Tetsuhiro Kato,
An unpublished Preprint for the XIIIth int'l Congress of Aesthetics in Lahti, Finland (1995)
Engramma
Site devoted to Warburg, his methods and Intellectual biography. `Engramma nasce per riscoprire il metodo di indagine di Aby Warburg e applicarlo alla ricerca storico-culturale.'
The Gombrich Archive
Includes bibliography, online texts and interview.
The Saxl Project
The Saxl Project is the name of a plan to have complete digital access to over 250 medieval and Renaissance illustrated astronomical and astrological manuscripts. It is intended to be a continuation and updating of Fritz Saxl's multi-volume work: Verzeichnis der astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters in römischen Bibliotheken (1915-1966, with the collaboration of Hans Meier and Patrick McGurk).

The Project is led by Kristen Lippincott and run jointly with The Warburg Institute, University of London. It has also benefitted greatly from previous collaborative research, which was carried out with Dr Elly Dekker of Utrecht University, between 1997 and 2007.