Emiliano De Vito

Martin Warnke. A question of method

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Abstract

The present essay attempts to bring into light some discontinuities between two theoretical attitudes conventionally considered as belonging to the same tradition of studies, a tradition supposedly originating with Aby Warburg’s method and his «Geistespolitik», and persisting through the present mainly due to the image studies reinvigorated in the mid-nineties by the restoration and programmatic rebirth of the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. Namely, the political iconography of the art historian Martin Warnke (1937- 2019), the main catalyst of such a «Nachleben», comes here into question with respect to its controversial relationship with the theoretical gesture of the culture historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929).

Keywords

  • Political iconography
  • Early sixteenth-century engravings
  • Lucas Cranach
  • Early Lutheran Reformation
  • Iconoclasm

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