Introduction

In recent years, Warburg’s work has been the subject of renewed scientific and academic interest, even in disciplinary fields other than art history. Although in this discipline Warburg has now become an important and undisputed name and has contributed significantly to the definition of a new method of study that does not only pertain to the strictly historical-artistic sphere, there still seems to be a lack of studies that consider Warburg’s work as the nerve point and gravitational centre of an absolutely modern constellation of ideas and that might serve for a deep, multifaceted, dynamic and lively analysis of the most intrinsic aspects of European culture.