First Published in German as "(Foto)grafische Ethosformel. Aby Warburgs Tafel 72", in: Seismografen und Orientierungsspiegel. Bilder der Welt in kurzen Kunstgeschichten, ed. Leena Crasemann, Benjamin Fellmann and Yannis Hadjinicolaou. Berlin and Boston 2022, pp. 76-83. For Uwe Fleckner During the co...

Baby Pictor?

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Yannis Hadjinicolaou (1 nov. 2021)

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We have all experienced this situation with our smartphone: While opening the photo gallery or the camera, a photograph pops up that is not familiar to us. It may be blurred, or showing a strange detail from a peculiar angle: a pavement, a staircase - if the respective image is recognizable at all....

Modi and Metamorphoses (II)

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Yannis Hadjinicolaou (2 nov. 2020)

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. Hans Sedlmayr, Portrait of Bismarck, Index für Politische Ikonographie, Warburg Haus, Hamburg This blog post follows on from the previous post Modi and Metamorphoses (I). Based on only this one particular work, it is almost impossible to speak about Sedlmayr´s manner as such, since we do not have...

Modi and Metamorphoses (I)

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Yannis Hadjinicolaou (26 oct. 2020)

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This blog post consists of two parts. The second instalment follows on Monday 2 November 2020. For Dario Gamboni An aged man, wearing a hat and sporting an impressive moustache looks, somehow sceptical and at the same time absorbed, towards the beholder (Fig. 1). The dark dominating tone of the pain...

Aby Warburg: "Italienische Kunst und internationale Astrologie im Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara" (1912/1922)

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Yannis Hadjinicolaou (20 nov. 2019)

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Fig.1 "April" (detail) fresco by Cosimo Tura in the Salone dei Mesi, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara (ca. 1469-70) The different modes that are brought together in this image may be summarized as “movement” and “stillness”, “tamed” and “untamed”, a central dialectic in the handling of falcons (Fig.1). O...

Qal'At Al Bahrain

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Yannis Hadjinicolaou (3 juin 2019)

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In the desert, the sand is in permanent motion. As the wind blows, a song emerges. In interaction with the sand, the wind constantly creates and destroys its work like a sculptor with self-iconoclastic tendencies. The shape of the dunes is as if they were drawn up with a ruler. The distances on the...

Louvre Abu Dhabi

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Yannis Hadjinicolaou (4 févr. 2019)

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Außenansicht des Louvre Abu Dhabi (Bild: Wikimedia Commons) Der Louvre Abu Dhabi ist zweifelsohne ein ungewöhnliches und einzigartiges Unterfangen. Nach jahrelanger Vorbereitung wurde er offiziell am 11. November 2017 auf der bis vor kurzem spärlich besiedelten Insel Saadiyat eröffnet. Er ist damit...

Public lecture by Dr. Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Gerald D. Feldman Fellow of the Max Weber Stiftung (MWS)

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IBO Team (4 juil. 2023)

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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Yannis Hadjinicolaou, one of the Gerald D. Feldman Fellow of the Max Weber Stiftung (MWS) and Research Associate of Bilderfahrzeuge, will hold a lecture on 13 February 2023. Title: Ruling through Luring: Cura Publica, Falconry and Visual Culture Event time and v...

Public lecture by Dr. Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Gerald D. Feldman Fellow of the Max Weber Stiftung (MWS)

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mwfdelhi (9 févr. 2023)

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New Lecture: "Ruling through Luring: Cura Publica, Falconry and Visual Culture."

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Stuart Moss (9 févr. 2023)

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Public lecture by our Bilderfahrzeuge colleague Yannis Hadjinicolaou at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

New publication: "Seismografen und Orientierungsspiegel - Bilder der Welt in kurzen Kunstgeschichten"

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Stuart Moss (12 sept. 2022)

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Edited by: Leena Crasemann, Benjamin Fellmann and Yannis Hadjinicolaou De Gruyter, 2022, 352 pages ISBN 9783110757385 The realization that a work of art should only be judged "as a product of the factors of its time, in which real life is reflected" inspired Aby Warburg to formulate an art history a...

Event: Conference "Spontaneität. Unmittelbarkeit, Schnelligkeit, Authentizität in westlicher und ostasiatischer Kunst"

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Stuart Moss (2 nov. 2021)

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Spontaneität Unmittelbarkeit, Schnelligkeit, Authentizität in westlicher und ostasiatischer Kunst Hamburg, Warburg-Haus, 19.-20. November 2021 Organisiert von Yannis Hadjinicolaou und Monika Wagner Ziel der Tagung ist es zum einen, die Vorstellungshorizonte und Bewertungen, die mit künstlerischer Sp...

Bilderfahrzeuge Conference: "Political Cargo. Image Vehicles in Global Exchange"

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Stuart Moss (24 sept. 2021)

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Politische Fracht. Bilderfahrzeuge im globalen Austausch Political Cargo. Image Vehicles in Global Exchange Tagung des Internationalen Forschungsverbundes / Conference of the International Research Project »Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology« Hamburg, Warburg-Haus, 29....

Lecture series: Ringvorlesung 'BildFahrZeug: Zur Zirkulation von Artefakten' at the University of Hamburg, April - July 2019.

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Stuart Moss (22 mars 2019)

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Detail from the Triptych of the Temptation of St Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch, ca 1501 (Imagesource: Wikimedia Commons) The International Research Project Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg's Legacy and the Future of Iconology is pleased to announce a new Lecture series (Ringvorlesung), organised by Leena...