Qualla: Warburg Institute https://qualla.com/warburg-institute en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/warburg-institute-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Warburg Institute https://qualla.com/warburg-institute Warburg Institute: Introduction https://qualla.com/warburg-institute/ Photo credit Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0. Aby Warburg had a peculiar conviction: that antiquity never ended. The gods of Greece and Rome did not disappear when Christianity spread across Europe. They went underground, re-emerging in Renaissance paintings, in astrological charts, in the gestures of figures in medieval manuscripts. Warburg spent his life tracking this 'afterlife of antiquity'—the way images and ideas from the classical world kept surfacing, transformed, in unexpected places. He began collecting books to support this research in 1886, formally established his library in Hamburg in 1909, and by 1933 had created one of the most unusual research institutions in the world. Then the Nazis came to power.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/warburg-institute-wp/gcpv-warburg-institute-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Warburg Institute: Escape from Hamburg https://qualla.com/warburg-institute/ Photo credit David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Aby Warburg died in 1929, four years before the threat became undeniable. His colleagues—led by Fritz Saxl, who had joined the institute in 1913 and served as its first director—made the decision to move the library to safety. In 1933, with Lord Lee of Fareham, Samuel Courtauld, ...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/warburg-institute-wp/gcpv-warburg-institute-escape-from-hamburg.mp3 0:06 2 full Warburg Institute: The Library's Strange Architecture https://qualla.com/warburg-institute/ Photo credit Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0. The building on Woburn Square in Bloomsbury was designed by Charles Holden and built in 1957. It sits within the University of London's Bloomsbury campus, adjacent to Birkbeck College and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Inside, the library holds more than 350,000 volu...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/warburg-institute-wp/gcpv-warburg-institute-the-librarys-strange-architecture.mp3 0:06 3 full Warburg Institute: The People Who Worked Here https://qualla.com/warburg-institute/ Photo credit Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA 4.0. The scholars associated with the Warburg Institute constitute a remarkable roll call of twentieth-century humanistic scholarship. Ernst Cassirer, the Neo-Kantian philosopher, used it in Hamburg. Erwin Panofsky, who transformed art history with his iconographic method, worked ther...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/warburg-institute-wp/gcpv-warburg-institute-the-people-who-worked-here.mp3 0:06 4 full Warburg Institute: Open to the Public https://qualla.com/warburg-institute/ Photo credit Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0. For most of its London history the Warburg Institute was a specialist research institution with restricted access. In 2022, work began on a major renovation branded 'Warburg Renaissance.' The project created a new structure in the former courtyard, with a lecture theatre and impr...

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