This is partly what makes Aby Warburg’s “Bilderatlas Mnemosyne” (“Mnemosyne Atlas,” in English), an encyclopedic collection of almost 1,000 images, so significant.

Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne panel 39. The 63 panels, each measuring 2m by 1.5m, were designed to provide non-linear pathways of meaning between images from antiquity to the early 20th century ...

Warburg died in 1929, but the rise of the Nazis in Germany made his friends fear that his archive would be confiscated and destroyed. They made arrangements to send it to England – hundreds of ...

And it was Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, to whom Warburg dedicated his most admired experiment: the 1927-1928 “Bilderatlas Mnemosyne”, a series of constantly shifting arrangements of images ...

The best-known story about Aby Warburg (1866-1929) dates to when, at the age of 13, he made a deal with his younger brother Max. Aby, the (apparently factual) tale goes, agreed to renounce his ...

One of the greatest lost masterpieces of the 20th century, Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, has miraculously been reconstructed, and is now on view in in Germany ...