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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 Arc...

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...

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 ...

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 enco...

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 ...

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 ch...

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 o...

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 dep...

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 ...

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 unima...

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 Wa...

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 l...

The Warburg Institute The Stone Age Origin of Art: What, When, Where, Why and by Whom? Professor Steve Mithen (University of Reading) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and acro...

Warburg Institute Lachmann today: The debate on the method of textual criticism and its consequences for the history of ancient art Luca Giuliani (Humboldt Berlin)

Warburg Institute The Role of Erasmus in the Career of Gilbert Cousin of Nozeroy (1506-72) Ann Blair (Harvard University)

Warburg Institute Per Monstra ad Sphaeram: Aby Warburg and the Future of the Humanities David Freedberg (Warburg Institute)