The Warburg Institute
@warburginstitute.bsky.social
Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
The New Acquisitions Library display has been updated!
With books on #Latin verse by Martin Luther, #Byzantine portraits, and art and war in the #Renaissance and a new publication on women who made a difference in #EarlyModern art, with a chapter by the Warburg’s very own Elizabeth McGrath.
With books on #Latin verse by Martin Luther, #Byzantine portraits, and art and war in the #Renaissance and a new publication on women who made a difference in #EarlyModern art, with a chapter by the Warburg’s very own Elizabeth McGrath.
February 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM
The New Acquisitions Library display has been updated!
With books on #Latin verse by Martin Luther, #Byzantine portraits, and art and war in the #Renaissance and a new publication on women who made a difference in #EarlyModern art, with a chapter by the Warburg’s very own Elizabeth McGrath.
With books on #Latin verse by Martin Luther, #Byzantine portraits, and art and war in the #Renaissance and a new publication on women who made a difference in #EarlyModern art, with a chapter by the Warburg’s very own Elizabeth McGrath.
Happy Lunar New Year 🏮
2026 is the Year of the Horse, so here are a few horse depictions from the Warburg Institute’s Iconographic Database.
Explore the database online: an art-historical image resource organised by subject matter (iconography): iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/home
2026 is the Year of the Horse, so here are a few horse depictions from the Warburg Institute’s Iconographic Database.
Explore the database online: an art-historical image resource organised by subject matter (iconography): iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/home
February 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Happy Lunar New Year 🏮
2026 is the Year of the Horse, so here are a few horse depictions from the Warburg Institute’s Iconographic Database.
Explore the database online: an art-historical image resource organised by subject matter (iconography): iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/home
2026 is the Year of the Horse, so here are a few horse depictions from the Warburg Institute’s Iconographic Database.
Explore the database online: an art-historical image resource organised by subject matter (iconography): iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/home
With Pancake Day tomorrow, we’re dipping into the Elizabeth David Bequest.
From pancakes made with “freshly fallen” snow to pink-coloured beetroot pancakes, we’ve found some brilliantly unusual recipes in David’s historical cookery books.
Which would you try?
From pancakes made with “freshly fallen” snow to pink-coloured beetroot pancakes, we’ve found some brilliantly unusual recipes in David’s historical cookery books.
Which would you try?
February 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
With Pancake Day tomorrow, we’re dipping into the Elizabeth David Bequest.
From pancakes made with “freshly fallen” snow to pink-coloured beetroot pancakes, we’ve found some brilliantly unusual recipes in David’s historical cookery books.
Which would you try?
From pancakes made with “freshly fallen” snow to pink-coloured beetroot pancakes, we’ve found some brilliantly unusual recipes in David’s historical cookery books.
Which would you try?
February 14, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Conspiracies is now open!
An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.
Ft. Hannah Black, Caspar Heinemann, Sam Keogh, and Shenece Oretha. Curated by Larne Abse Gogarty. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.
Ft. Hannah Black, Caspar Heinemann, Sam Keogh, and Shenece Oretha. Curated by Larne Abse Gogarty. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
February 13, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Conspiracies is now open!
An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.
Ft. Hannah Black, Caspar Heinemann, Sam Keogh, and Shenece Oretha. Curated by Larne Abse Gogarty. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.
Ft. Hannah Black, Caspar Heinemann, Sam Keogh, and Shenece Oretha. Curated by Larne Abse Gogarty. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📚 This week’s new acquisitions tables in the Warburg Reading room feature topics such as #IslamicPhilosophy, the #Sociology of #Art, early #Martyr narratives and #Donatello. 📚
February 12, 2026 at 11:28 AM
📚 This week’s new acquisitions tables in the Warburg Reading room feature topics such as #IslamicPhilosophy, the #Sociology of #Art, early #Martyr narratives and #Donatello. 📚
New recording: Distilling The Alchemical Feminine with Dr M.E. Warlick (University of Denver), chaired by Dr Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford).
Alchemical images, gender, sexuality and a “Chemical Wedding”.
Watch: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Alchemy #ArtHistory
Alchemical images, gender, sexuality and a “Chemical Wedding”.
Watch: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Alchemy #ArtHistory
Distilling The Alchemical Feminine
A lecture by Dr M.E. Warlick marking the publication of The Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Alchemical Images
warburg.sas.ac.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:28 AM
New recording: Distilling The Alchemical Feminine with Dr M.E. Warlick (University of Denver), chaired by Dr Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford).
Alchemical images, gender, sexuality and a “Chemical Wedding”.
Watch: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Alchemy #ArtHistory
Alchemical images, gender, sexuality and a “Chemical Wedding”.
Watch: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Alchemy #ArtHistory
Ahead of our opening this week, Conspiracies is in the @financialtimes.com!
Read @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's piece here: www.ft.com/content/13f7...
Read @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's piece here: www.ft.com/content/13f7...
February 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Ahead of our opening this week, Conspiracies is in the @financialtimes.com!
Read @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's piece here: www.ft.com/content/13f7...
Read @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's piece here: www.ft.com/content/13f7...
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Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️
New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School
From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️
Valentine’s Day is nearly here 💘 and we’re marking it with a Warburg love story.
in this blog, Marianna Leszczyk introduces Mary Hertz (later Mary Warburg), tracing her early encounters and correspondence with Aby Warburg in Florence, and the emergence of his Botticelli and Venus research.
in this blog, Marianna Leszczyk introduces Mary Hertz (later Mary Warburg), tracing her early encounters and correspondence with Aby Warburg in Florence, and the emergence of his Botticelli and Venus research.
“My Heart Is Overflowing”: Aby Warburg, Mary Hertz, and Love as Creativity
A chance encounter in Florence brings Mary Hertz into view as artist and interlocutor, alongside the first stirrings of Warburg’s Botticelli and Venus research.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Valentine’s Day is nearly here 💘 and we’re marking it with a Warburg love story.
in this blog, Marianna Leszczyk introduces Mary Hertz (later Mary Warburg), tracing her early encounters and correspondence with Aby Warburg in Florence, and the emergence of his Botticelli and Venus research.
in this blog, Marianna Leszczyk introduces Mary Hertz (later Mary Warburg), tracing her early encounters and correspondence with Aby Warburg in Florence, and the emergence of his Botticelli and Venus research.
Interested in postgraduate study at the Warburg Institute?
Join our in-person Open Day on 26 February to learn more about our MA and PGCert programmes, as well as MPhil and PhD research opportunities.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/study-us/stu...
Join our in-person Open Day on 26 February to learn more about our MA and PGCert programmes, as well as MPhil and PhD research opportunities.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/study-us/stu...
February 6, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Interested in postgraduate study at the Warburg Institute?
Join our in-person Open Day on 26 February to learn more about our MA and PGCert programmes, as well as MPhil and PhD research opportunities.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/study-us/stu...
Join our in-person Open Day on 26 February to learn more about our MA and PGCert programmes, as well as MPhil and PhD research opportunities.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/study-us/stu...
New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School
From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 11:28 AM
New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
The new acquisitions display in our library just got bigger!
Now with two tables of new items, you are sure to find something that interests you. Make sure to pop by the Warburg’s Reading Room to see this week’s picks. 📚
Now with two tables of new items, you are sure to find something that interests you. Make sure to pop by the Warburg’s Reading Room to see this week’s picks. 📚
February 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The new acquisitions display in our library just got bigger!
Now with two tables of new items, you are sure to find something that interests you. Make sure to pop by the Warburg’s Reading Room to see this week’s picks. 📚
Now with two tables of new items, you are sure to find something that interests you. Make sure to pop by the Warburg’s Reading Room to see this week’s picks. 📚
The latest volume of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes is out now!
From the medieval reception of the Antonine Itinerary to women’s Latin writing in the Quattrocento, and numismatic chronology in the Republic of Letters.
Read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jwci/cur...
From the medieval reception of the Antonine Itinerary to women’s Latin writing in the Quattrocento, and numismatic chronology in the Republic of Letters.
Read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jwci/cur...
February 4, 2026 at 11:28 AM
The latest volume of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes is out now!
From the medieval reception of the Antonine Itinerary to women’s Latin writing in the Quattrocento, and numismatic chronology in the Republic of Letters.
Read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jwci/cur...
From the medieval reception of the Antonine Itinerary to women’s Latin writing in the Quattrocento, and numismatic chronology in the Republic of Letters.
Read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jwci/cur...
Conspiracies opens at the Warburg next week!
An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#LondonExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Conspiracy
An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#LondonExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Conspiracy
February 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Conspiracies opens at the Warburg next week!
An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#LondonExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Conspiracy
An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#LondonExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Conspiracy
Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#MaterialCulture #History
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#MaterialCulture #History
January 30, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#MaterialCulture #History
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#MaterialCulture #History
A new display in our Wohl Special Collections Reading Room ‘Alchemical Networks: The Library of Michael Innes’ explores the rare book collection of Michael Innes (1897-1980).
New display explores the Library of Michael Innes
A new display in the Wohl Special Collections Reading Room ‘Alchemical Networks: The Library of Michael Innes’ explores the rare book collection of Michael Innes (1897-1980).
warburg.sas.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 11:28 AM
A new display in our Wohl Special Collections Reading Room ‘Alchemical Networks: The Library of Michael Innes’ explores the rare book collection of Michael Innes (1897-1980).
Handle rare materials on witchcraft, Caribbean cosmologies & tarot in this short course with Pragya Dhital.
3–5 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm (Senate House + Warburg).
Limited to 15.
Book by 23 February.
In-person only.
#RareBooks #OccultHistory #Magic #Witchcraft
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
3–5 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm (Senate House + Warburg).
Limited to 15.
Book by 23 February.
In-person only.
#RareBooks #OccultHistory #Magic #Witchcraft
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 28, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Handle rare materials on witchcraft, Caribbean cosmologies & tarot in this short course with Pragya Dhital.
3–5 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm (Senate House + Warburg).
Limited to 15.
Book by 23 February.
In-person only.
#RareBooks #OccultHistory #Magic #Witchcraft
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
3–5 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm (Senate House + Warburg).
Limited to 15.
Book by 23 February.
In-person only.
#RareBooks #OccultHistory #Magic #Witchcraft
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
"...a startling work of scholarship, imagination, and defamiliarisation, this book is as exciting as it's original"
Join us this Friday evening for the launch of 'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England' by E. K. Myerson: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Medieval #Syria
Join us this Friday evening for the launch of 'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England' by E. K. Myerson: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Medieval #Syria
The Desire for Syria in Medieval England
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January 27, 2026 at 5:37 PM
"...a startling work of scholarship, imagination, and defamiliarisation, this book is as exciting as it's original"
Join us this Friday evening for the launch of 'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England' by E. K. Myerson: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Medieval #Syria
Join us this Friday evening for the launch of 'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England' by E. K. Myerson: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Medieval #Syria
On Lewis Carroll’s birthday, a look at a Warburg Library copy of 'Through the Looking-Glass'.
This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.
#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.
#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 AM
On Lewis Carroll’s birthday, a look at a Warburg Library copy of 'Through the Looking-Glass'.
This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.
#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.
#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
With books on the mysteries of nature, confraternities, and Eugene Delacroix, this week’s New Acquisitions display in the Warburg’s Reading Room is well worth a browse!
#EugeneDelacroix #Library #LibraryBooks
#EugeneDelacroix #Library #LibraryBooks
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
With books on the mysteries of nature, confraternities, and Eugene Delacroix, this week’s New Acquisitions display in the Warburg’s Reading Room is well worth a browse!
#EugeneDelacroix #Library #LibraryBooks
#EugeneDelacroix #Library #LibraryBooks
“There’s no finger-pointing here; just sonority, speculation, the poetry of deep thought.” @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Looking for something to do this weekend?
Black Atlas closes on Saturday 31 January 2026. Make sure to view it whilst you can!
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Looking for something to do this weekend?
Black Atlas closes on Saturday 31 January 2026. Make sure to view it whilst you can!
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 23, 2026 at 11:28 AM
“There’s no finger-pointing here; just sonority, speculation, the poetry of deep thought.” @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Looking for something to do this weekend?
Black Atlas closes on Saturday 31 January 2026. Make sure to view it whilst you can!
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Looking for something to do this weekend?
Black Atlas closes on Saturday 31 January 2026. Make sure to view it whilst you can!
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
A diamond-shelled “treasurer” tortoise that dispenses money and predicts the future?
Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli explores Paolo Ramusio’s fifteenth-century visionary text on the Warburg blog.
Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli explores Paolo Ramusio’s fifteenth-century visionary text on the Warburg blog.
A Tortoise in Search of Meaning: Cryptic Animal Symbolism in Paolo Ramusio’s Vision
Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli unpacks one of the strangest details in Ramusio’s fifteenth-century vision, and what it reveals about how symbols acquire new lives.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 11:28 AM
A diamond-shelled “treasurer” tortoise that dispenses money and predicts the future?
Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli explores Paolo Ramusio’s fifteenth-century visionary text on the Warburg blog.
Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli explores Paolo Ramusio’s fifteenth-century visionary text on the Warburg blog.
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Join us for our next event: 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' by Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University)
🗓️ 2 Feb
🕰️ 5:30pm UK time
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#textiles #history
🗓️ 2 Feb
🕰️ 5:30pm UK time
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#textiles #history
A Material World - 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'
warburg.sas.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Join us for our next event: 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' by Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University)
🗓️ 2 Feb
🕰️ 5:30pm UK time
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#textiles #history
🗓️ 2 Feb
🕰️ 5:30pm UK time
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#textiles #history
📣 Job opportunity: Digital Communications Officer (maternity leave cover)
We are recruiting a part-time Digital Communications Officer (12-month fixed-term contract)!
17.5 hrs per week
£37,085 pro rata
Apply by 25 Jan 2026
Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #CommsJobs
We are recruiting a part-time Digital Communications Officer (12-month fixed-term contract)!
17.5 hrs per week
£37,085 pro rata
Apply by 25 Jan 2026
Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #CommsJobs
January 19, 2026 at 12:58 PM
📣 Job opportunity: Digital Communications Officer (maternity leave cover)
We are recruiting a part-time Digital Communications Officer (12-month fixed-term contract)!
17.5 hrs per week
£37,085 pro rata
Apply by 25 Jan 2026
Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #CommsJobs
We are recruiting a part-time Digital Communications Officer (12-month fixed-term contract)!
17.5 hrs per week
£37,085 pro rata
Apply by 25 Jan 2026
Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #CommsJobs