Girls in Warburg

Girls in Warburg. In addition to the development of the town and its sacral topography, the exhibition also focuses on trade, crafts, economic structures and Warburg's relationship to the Hanseatic League.

A decade later, it became part of the University of London.

For Lessing, ancient sculptures of Laocoön provided an excuse to meditate on the limits of visual art and poetry, and Warburg is doing something of the same. He was interested in the Native American Hopi people whom he visited following his marriage in , documenting their serpent dances before going on in subsequent lectures to suggest that they had connections to religious thinking in ancient Athens.