The Book as World and the World as Book

The Karlsruhe Piranesi Albums: Recovering an Eighteenth-Century Antiquarian Enterprise

Professor Christoph Frank, Università della Svizzera italiana Christoph Frank received his PhD in the History of the Classical Tradition from the Warburg Institute in 1993. Since 2005 he has been Professor of the History and Theory of Art and Architecture at the Università della Svizzera italiana, where in 2011 he founded the Istituto di Storia e Teoria dell'Arte e dell'Architettura. He specializes in eighteenth-century European art and is currently one of the three main applicants of a DFG-SNSF project devoted to the recently identified Piranesi Albums at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

Burckhardt at 200: interpreting the Italian Renaissance past, present and future

Peter Burke (Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, University of Cambridge) Jonathan Jones (Art critic for The Guardian and former judge of the Turner Prize) Martin Ruehl (Senior Lecturer in German History and Thought, University of Cambridge)

Goldsmiths, ivory carvers, embroiderers: identity in the medieval workshop

Speaker: Glyn Davies, Museum of London

Mediation and Transformation | Alchemy and New Technology

Speaker: Adam Lowe, Factum Arte, Madrid

The Book as World and the World as Book

On 20 April 2018, the Warburg Institute (in conjunction with the Cervantes Institute) will host an event on books and readers in the Spanish-speaking world, with the theme 'The Book as World, the World as Book'. The day will culminate in a conversation between Alberto Manguel, Director of the National Library of Argentina, and Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg.