If not for Warburg, by the end of the 19th century, the language of symbols in painting would have been lost. Why did I have to re-open it?
After all, from the Renaissance to the art academies of the early 19th century, the continuity of knowledge was preserved, and no loss occurred.
The language was actually lost in European art already in the neoclassical era . Therefore, Abi Warburg gave science a creative development of the ideas of interpreting the works of the old masters, based on a deep study and comprehensive analysis of the content of contemporary monuments of philosophy, literature and emblematic collections. This is the difference between Warburg's iconology and the descriptive positivism of the iconography method .