The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
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Book now for our online short course led by Dr Anna Somfai:
Book now for our online short course led by Dr Anna Somfai:
In the Nativity story, an angel appears to the Magi in a dream and sends them home “by another way”, a reminder that beginnings are not always about grand resolutions.
Wishing you a year of wise choices, safe journeys and bright returns.
In the Nativity story, an angel appears to the Magi in a dream and sends them home “by another way”, a reminder that beginnings are not always about grand resolutions.
Wishing you a year of wise choices, safe journeys and bright returns.
Join us for a free talk by Dr Barbara Lasic (Sotheby’s Institute of Art): Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters.
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Join us for a free talk by Dr Barbara Lasic (Sotheby’s Institute of Art): Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters.
Book here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join Thomas Balfe for a six-week online course tracing the symbolic, scientific and political meanings of nature in Northern European art.
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Join Thomas Balfe for a six-week online course tracing the symbolic, scientific and political meanings of nature in Northern European art.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
From the Warburg’s Iconographic Database: a medieval Nativity scene, one example of how manuscript artists visualised the story in the Middle Ages.
Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France – lat. 511, fol. 48r, 1370 (circa).
#MedievalArt #Manuscripts
From the Warburg’s Iconographic Database: a medieval Nativity scene, one example of how manuscript artists visualised the story in the Middle Ages.
Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France – lat. 511, fol. 48r, 1370 (circa).
#MedievalArt #Manuscripts
Learn how to build a critical edition and a stemma codicum, step by step, with Dr Anna Somfai.
Thursdays 2-4pm, 16 April-7 May 2026.
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#TextualCriticism #MedievalStudies
Learn how to build a critical edition and a stemma codicum, step by step, with Dr Anna Somfai.
Thursdays 2-4pm, 16 April-7 May 2026.
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#TextualCriticism #MedievalStudies
Our new short course, led by Thomas Balfe, looks at Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt and more, placing their works in wider cultural and intellectual contexts.
Fridays, 30 Jan–13 Mar (online).
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Our new short course, led by Thomas Balfe, looks at Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt and more, placing their works in wider cultural and intellectual contexts.
Fridays, 30 Jan–13 Mar (online).
Book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Find out more about the innovative collection in this talk with Professor Simon Mckeown and Professor Oliver Musenberg: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Find out more about the innovative collection in this talk with Professor Simon Mckeown and Professor Oliver Musenberg: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📅3-5 March 2026
🕠5.30-7.30pm
📍Senate House Library & Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social
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📅3-5 March 2026
🕠5.30-7.30pm
📍Senate House Library & Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Book here 👇
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Following strong interest from visitors & critics, we’re delighted to share that Black Atlas has been extended to 31 January 2026!
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Following strong interest from visitors & critics, we’re delighted to share that Black Atlas has been extended to 31 January 2026!
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our blue book bag has been featured in The Times and The Sunday Times “Swanky Gifts for Book Lovers”: www.thetimes.com/life-style/l...
Our blue book bag has been featured in The Times and The Sunday Times “Swanky Gifts for Book Lovers”: www.thetimes.com/life-style/l...
Our latest Life After the Warburg blog features @louisamckenzie.bsky.social, now a Research Associate on the UKRI-funded Art and Inequality in the Post-Black Death Century project at the University of Glasgow.
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Our latest Life After the Warburg blog features @louisamckenzie.bsky.social, now a Research Associate on the UKRI-funded Art and Inequality in the Post-Black Death Century project at the University of Glasgow.
Read:
🗓️ 12 January
🕰️ 5:30pm
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🔗 Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🗓️ 12 January
🕰️ 5:30pm
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🔗 Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,
‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,
In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of these remarkable index card boxes and what they offer researchers today
In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of these remarkable index card boxes and what they offer researchers today
Juliet Simpson & Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art & worldviews to our sense of modernity
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Juliet Simpson & Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art & worldviews to our sense of modernity
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Tune in here (from 2h 9m) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Tune in here (from 2h 9m) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Maria Golovteeva explores ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’
🗓️ 8 December 2025
🕠 5.30 to 7pm (GMT)
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free with advance booking
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Maria Golovteeva explores ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’
🗓️ 8 December 2025
🕠 5.30 to 7pm (GMT)
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free with advance booking
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...
We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...
10-12 December 2025 | 📍 Senate House
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#ClassicalStudies #Classics #VisualCulture
10-12 December 2025 | 📍 Senate House
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#ClassicalStudies #Classics #VisualCulture
Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art and worldviews to our sense of modernity.
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art and worldviews to our sense of modernity.
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Highlights include new titles on apocalyptic cultures, classical comedy, ceramics and divination.
You’ll also find a new volume on images of desire in the Mediterranean world, featuring a chapter by the Warburg’s Charles Burnett.
#Library
Highlights include new titles on apocalyptic cultures, classical comedy, ceramics and divination.
You’ll also find a new volume on images of desire in the Mediterranean world, featuring a chapter by the Warburg’s Charles Burnett.
#Library
In our latest 'Life after the Warburg' we caught up with Warburg alumna Paloma Ley:
In our latest 'Life after the Warburg' we caught up with Warburg alumna Paloma Ley:
To coincide with his exhibition Black Atlas, Edward George presented a live performance-lecture entitled The Strangeness of Warburg.
Watch and listen here:
To coincide with his exhibition Black Atlas, Edward George presented a live performance-lecture entitled The Strangeness of Warburg.
Watch and listen here: