Aby Warburg was born in Hamburg in 1866 as the first heir of a Bank that had played a central role in pre-war imperial Germany. The legend says that he sold this privilege of being the future head of the family for his brothers promise to support the scholar until the end of his life. The brothers accepted this condition and so allowed Warburg to fully concentrate on his studies, to travel, to support and engage assistants and gather an impressive collection of books. Warburg studied archeology and art history – while he was as well interested in medicine, psychology, or the history of religion - in Bonn, Munich, and in Strassburg where he finished his doctorate thesis on Sandro Botticellis two paintings Birth of Venus and Primavera. He continued his work by travelling to Florence and producing a number of small studies on single works of art and their wealthy patrons, in particular bankers themselves, like the Medici or Sassetti, who mediated between the demands of civic representation and the ideal principles of high art; and, perhaps better known, by going to the United States and the reservs of the Hopi Indians in 1896, in order to study the ethnological aspects of rites and ceremonies in other cultures and their difference to or similarity with the so-called western world.educ.fc.ul.pt/hyper/resources/mbruhn/
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