Connecting the Heavens and Earth Through Art

Connecting the Heavens and Earth Through Art

HAMBURG, Germany — In the 1920s, Hamburg-born art historian Aby Warburg assembled his famed Mnemosyne Atlas — a vast, unfinished compendium of uncaptioned images on 40 categorized panels. Around the same time, he put together his Image Collection on the History of Astrology and Astronomy, a similar array of pictures on panels illustrating that humans have always looked to the heavens to understand themselves and the world, both scientifically an…