The Warburg Institute is a research institution associated with the University of London. Its focus is the study of the influence of classical antiquity on all aspects of European civilization. The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ...

The Institute was founded by Aby Warburg (1866-1929), a student of Renaissance art and culture. Warburg became dissatisfied with a purely stylistic approach to art history and grew interested in a more interdisciplinary approach. While studying the culture of Renaissance Florence, he grew interested in the influence of antiquity on modern culture, and, while a professor at the University of Hamburg, built up his personal library around the question. Botticellis The Birth of Venus Botticellis Primavera Aby Moritz Warburg (Born: 13 June 1866 Hamburg, Germany Died: 26 October -1929 Hamburg, Germany) was an influential art historian. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ... Interdisciplinary work is that which integrates concepts across different disciplines. ... Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ... The University of Hamburg was founded on the 1 April 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. ...

Warburg was joined by his fellow professor Fritz Saxl (1890-1948), who transformed Warburg's collection into a scholarly institute, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, affiliated to the University of Hamburg. In 1934, under the shadow of Nazism, the institute was relocated from Hamburg to London. In 1944 it became associated with the University of London, and in 1994 it became a founding institute of the University of London's School of Advanced Study. It currently occupies a large building in Woburn Square, built in 1957 and is adjacent to the University of London Student Union, School of Oriental and African Studies, and Christ the King college church buildings. The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, also occupies the building. National Socialism redirects here. ... The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ... The School of Advanced Study is a listed organisation of the University of London. ... The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ... The School of Oriental and African Studies (commonly abbreviated to SOAS) is a College of the University of London. ... Part of the University College London, the Slade School of Art was founded in 1868 as the result of an endowment by Felix Slade. ... University College London, commonly known as UCL, is a college of the University of London. ...

The Warburg Institute has a library of more than 350,000 volumes. These volumes, except for a small number of rare and valuable books, are kept on open shelves and are accessible to all. The Institute also holds a large photographic collection and the personal archives of Aby Warburg. Together with the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Institute publishes The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, a well-known annual of about 300 pages. The Institute is notable for its unusual and unique reference system: the Institute's collection is arranged by subject according to Aby Warburg's division of human history into the categories of Action, Orientation, Word, and Image. The University of London Research Library Services (ULRLS) is group of libraries together comprising an extensive research collection across the social science and humanities disciplines. ... Botticellis The Birth of Venus Botticellis Primavera Aby Moritz Warburg (Born: 13 June 1866 Hamburg, Germany Died: 26 October -1929 Hamburg, Germany) was an influential art historian. ... The Courtauld Institute of Art is a listed organisation of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. ...

Well-known scholars associated with the Warburg Institute include Ernst Cassirer, Henri Frankfort, Arnaldo Momigliano, Ernst Gombrich (who served as director from 1959 to 1976), Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, Frances Yates and Anthony Grafton. The current group of scholars continues the Institute's tradition of interdisciplinary research into history, philosophy, religion, and art. The permanent staff is enriched by a sizeable number of academics and graduate students who hold short and long-term fellowships. Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. ... Dutch egyptologist, archaeologist and orientalist, Henri Frankfort was born in Amsterdam on 24 Feb. ... Arnaldo Dante Momigliano KBE (September 5, 1908, Caraglio, Piemont–September 1, 1987, London) was an Italian historian known for his work in historiography, characterized by Donald Kagan as the world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world. He became professor of Roman history at the... Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) CBE, was an art historian, who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. ... Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) was a German art historian and essayist often credited with the founding of the academic iconography. ... Edgar Wind (14 May 1900 Berlin, Germany-12 September 1971 London, England) was an interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. ... Dame Frances Amelia Yates (1899-1981) was a noted British historian. ... Anthony Grafton (born 21 May 1950) is an American historian. ...

In addition to its primary purpose as an academic reference library, the Institute accepts a small number of graduate students each year. The Institute awards the degrees of Master of Arts in Cultural and Intellectual History and Doctor of Philosophy (see graduate studies website); the former is a one-year degree with taught and research components while the latter is a three-year terminal research degree. The emphasis of these programs is on developing interpretative skills in a number of different academic subjects, which follows from the Institute's interdiscplinary mission. Considerable attention is devoted to improving language skills and knowledge of primary sources; the Institute believes that these areas are unjustly neglected by aspiring academics in order to focus on secondary scholarship and critical theory. The MA program is one of the few non-Classics graduate programs in Great Britain which requires fluency in Latin.

Due to the (relatively) small number of staff, students, and regular users, the Institute prides itself on a friendly and informal teaching and research atmosphere.

External link

• Website of the Warburg Institute