About this project

It was when working on my master thesis on the so-called iconological method by Erwin Panofsky at Leiden University, 1974-1975, that I got intrigued by the work of Warburg.

In the 1980's I worked on my dissertation, again at Leiden University, on the topic of Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas. I defended my dissertation in December 1992.

The text of the dissertation was never published, but I wrote a chapter on the Atlas in the book Aby M. Warburg "Ekstatische Nymphe ... trauender Flussgott"; Portrait eines Gelehrten (Hamburg, 1995). In 2017 I published a chapter on Warburg's cultural historical methods in The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography (ed. Colum Hourihane, chapter 6).

It was this last publication that triggered this project: Presenting all the relations between words and images that make up the three series of photographs of the Mnemosyne Atlas as graphs, using only the (un)published works and projects of Warburg: "Zum Bild das Wort" ("To the image the text").

Contact: Peter van Huisstede (pvanhuisstede[apestaartje]ziggo.nl).