Fondo Aby Warburg

Reference code

KHI - WAR.

Creator

Aby Warburg.

Repository

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz).

Dates

1903-1927.

extent

2 Boxes; 1700 Items

archive document photograph note

arrangement

Documents and photos are grouped in folders and arranged in chronological order and by subjects.

Scope and content

The fund consists in around 1700 items including typescript sheets, manuscripts and handwritten notes, transcriptions, photos, some letters.

contents

People and organizations

Federico Zeri

Genres and themes

iconography painting House of Medici collecting historical archive textile furniture

Other contents

Villa Medici

History of collection

The origin of the collection goes back to the first years of study and to the first research projects produced by Warburg in Florence together with KHI Director Heinrich Brockhaus and continued, with numerous interruptions, until 1927.

Acquisition

donation. 1927.

Events

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

2019

summer school

CATALOGUING STANDARDS

ISAD

Finding Aids

Adlib software

Access

partially restricted, available by request

Bibliography

NONE

archivists say

The collection is relevant for Medici collections studies and contains sources about the birth of art history.

related nuclei and collections

There are other materials related and to be connected to this in the Archive of KHI in Florenz.