Aby Warburg Metamorphosis Memory Promo

Aby Warburg (18661929) was an innovative and influential art historian whose interests ranged from the Italian Renaissance to Hopi ritual dances, from frescoes to postage stamps, combining art and culturalhistory, anthropology and religion. He explored the after life of antiquity, the tensions between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, the rational and irrational, the secular and religious in Renaissance paintings of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. This one hour documentary traces the development of W