Warburg, de Kant à Boas

Abstract

The history of art has been regenerated thanks to its alliance with anthropology, an alliance to be set down to the meeting between Warburg and Boas, who both deserted German idealism. Warburg restored ancient paganism using alexandrine and Renaissance canons. His work helps us, by way of comparison, to grasp in a different way this modification that, since Baudelaire and Manet, has been described as modernity in painting.