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Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (30 March - 3 November ) was an Austrian-born art historian who spent most of his working life in the United.!
This book introduces the reader to the ideas and the personality of a scholar who exerted a major influence on the course of art-historical studies through his publications, through the Institute which bears his name, and through his disciples.
Aby Warburg
German art historian (–)
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Born | Aby Moritz Warburg ()June 13, Hamburg, North German Confederation |
Died | October 26, () (aged63) Hamburg, Weimar Republic |
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Art historian |
Spouse | Mary Hertz (m.) |
Children | Marietta (–) Max Adolph (–) Frede C. Warburg (–) |
Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, – October 26, ) was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Warburg Library for Cultural Studies), a private library, which was later moved to the Warburg Institute, London.
At the heart of his research was the legacy of the classical world, and the transmission of classical representation, in the most varied areas of Western culture through to the Renaissance.
Warburg described himself as: "Amburghese di cuore, ebreo di sangue, d'anima Fiorentino"[1] ('Hamburger at heart, Jew by bl