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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 20h

Black Atlas opens this Friday...

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CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss the first talk in this year's series of the History Of Libraries Seminar, ✨ tonight ✨ online or in person @warburginstitute.bsky.social!

Libraries and delinquency: the case of Charles Burney (1757-1817)

Free of charge, but reservation is required: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Libraries and Delinquency: The Case of Charles Burney (1757-1817)

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 1d

📚 The new acquisitions table in the Reading Room of the Library has been updated!

Find books on Luther, Dante, Petrarch and the Magic of Drawing. You can also check out the 'Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation', with contributions from Warburg Honorary Fellow Alastair Hamilton.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 6d

✨Opening next week ✨

Edward George’s 'Black Atlas' opens at the Warburg on 10 October!

Drawing on the Image of the Black archive the exhibition includes a new film commission and collaged image panels.

📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍Warburg Institute | Free

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 6d

We’re honoured to host a special event this afternoon with @icws-sas.bsky.social & @ials.bsky.social: Albie Sachs in Conversation.

The anti-apartheid activist, writer, and former Constitutional Court judge is sharing his experiences of overcoming adversity and reflecting on his time at the ICWS

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 7d

Applications are open for our funded fellowships!

📚 Long- and short-term fellowships in cultural, intellectual & art history
🎨 New Frances A Yates Curatorial Fellowship
📚 Joint fellowship with Villa I Tatti

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...

#ResearchFellowship #CulturalHistory

Funded Research Fellowships

Pursue your research with the Warburg Institute’s world-renowned collections.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in studying at the Warburg?

Discover our postgraduate programmes: warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying

Join us for our Open Day on Thursday 20 November: warburg.sas.ac.uk/study-us/stu...

Study with us

We offer postgraduate study in ideas, images, and society: medieval to modern.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 8d

A big welcome to all of our new students starting this week, pictured here in our auditorium!

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 12d

The Image of the Black archive: Past, Present and Future

Join us for this two-day international conference!

📅 7–8 November 2025, 9am–6pm
🎟 Free to attend in person or online

Keynote: Dr Adrienne L. Childs

🔗 Book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#ArtHistory #BlackHistory

The Image of the Black Archive: Past, Present and Future

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 13d

📚 This week on the new acquisitions table, we have books on illustration and ornamentation in the Iberian book world, the crisis of Calvinism in revolutionary England, and the office of ceremonies and advancements in Curial Rome.

Available now in the Reading Room of our Library!

#Library

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 14d

Hi James, if you want to attend online please email us [email protected] as we are looking to stream it over Zoom and the events team will send you the link.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 14d

'Picturing Aura', is a historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualise the hidden radiant force encompassing the living body known as the aura.

Join us for this talk with the author: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/pictu...

16 October, 5:30 - 7pm |📍 Warburg Institute

Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 21

📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣

Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm
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From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm
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Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500 - 1800

Join us at The London Archives for an illustrated talk by Professor Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics).

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Autumn Equinox! 🌾

This woodcut from Aesop’s Fables shows a nest in the harvest field as the farmer approaches with his sickle - a glimpse of rural life turned allegory in #RenaissanceArt.

Woodcut by Bernard Salomon, Lyon 1571. From our Iconographic Database.

#Aesop #Harvest #AutumnEquinox

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 18d

Why study at the Warburg Institute?

✨ One of 20 libraries that changed the world
✨ Small cohorts & unrivalled contact with experts
✨ A dynamic, interdisciplinary community of students
✨ In the heart of London’s cultural hub

Find out more at our Open Day

Study at the Warburg: Open Day, Autumn 2025

Join us on Thursday 20 November 2025 to discover more about our postgraduate programmes

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 19d

Working with Italian Renaissance sources? 📜

Our Italian Palaeography short course will give you the skills to:

✔️ Read & transcribe manuscripts (14th–17th c.)
✔️ Gain feedback via mock & final exams
✔️ Build research confidence

Online | Oct 2025–Mar 2026

Book here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renai...

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 19d

Don't miss our 2-day international conference exploring the rich entanglements between allegory and scientific thought in Europe between 1300 and 1700.

Book here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/alleg...

24 - 25 October, 9am - 6pm

#History #EarlyModernScience #Allegory

“As stiffe twin compasses”: Allegory and Sciences, 1300-1700

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 21d

Interested in bookbindings?

Learn all about Greek-style bindings in early modern Venice in this talk and book launch with author Anna Gialdini in conversation with Nicholas Pickwoad

warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/greek...

8 October 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

#BookBindings #EarlyModern #BookHistory

Greek-style bookbindings in early modern Venice and beyond

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 21d

Now open for booking!

This online course provides an introduction to the representation of African people in the art and culture of early modern Europe.

Thursdays, 13 November - 11 December, 2 - 3:30pm

The Representation of African People in Early Modern European Art & Culture

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 22d

Book now for this one-day conference that brings together art and architectural historians from Europe and the US to discuss architectural provenance across genres, material, place and time.

Learn more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/archi...

31 October, 10am - 6pm

#ArchitecturalHistory #Architecture

Architectural Provenance

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 23d

"Studying at the Warburg is an unparalleled experience"

Join us for our upcoming Open Day!

Discover more about our programmes, tour our world-renowned collections and meet our programme convenors to find out what it’s like to study at the Warburg.

warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/study...

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 26d

A really interesting new piece with implications for gender, class, and the Latin language in Quattrocento Italy.

The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 26d

The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes has just published a new article from its upcoming 2025 edition!

‘An Exceptional Woman? Polissena Messalto Grimaldi and the Variety of Women’s Latin Writing in the Quattrocento’ by Alex E. Tadel.

An Exceptional Woman? Polissena Messalto Grimaldi and the Variety of Women’s Latin Writing in the Quattrocento* | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

This article presents the life and work of Polissena Messalto Grimaldi (c. 1402–1467), a woman Latin writer who has until now escaped the attention of scholars in the field. Through original…

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 26d

The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes has just published a new article from its upcoming 2025 edition!

‘An Exceptional Woman? Polissena Messalto Grimaldi and the Variety of Women’s Latin Writing in the Quattrocento’ by Alex E. Tadel.

An Exceptional Woman? Polissena Messalto Grimaldi and the Variety of Women’s Latin Writing in the Quattrocento* | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

This article presents the life and work of Polissena Messalto Grimaldi (c. 1402–1467), a woman Latin writer who has until now escaped the attention of scholars in the field. Through original…

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 27d

The Image of the Black archive: Past, Present and Future

This two-day conference brings together scholars who have contributed to the Image of the Black archive and those producing new research on the historic representation of African people in Western art.

The Image of the Black Archive: Past, Present and Future

This two-day international conference brings together scholars who have contributed to the project over its history and those producing new research on the historic representation of African people in European and American art and culture.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 28d

📚 The new acquisitions table in the Library's Reading Room has been updated 📚

With books on Babel, Islam in Europe, and Renaissance dream cultures, there's lots to explore!

#Renaissance #Babel #Islam #Library

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