The Hamburg bankers son Aby Warburg 18661929 was one of the most influential art historians and cultural theorists of the 20th century. His lifes work was devoted to tracing antique formulas of representation in the depiction of human passions in Renaissance art. For this epochspanning relationship he developed the term pathos formula Pathosformel. In a lecture given in 1905 in the Konzerthaus in Hamburg focusing on the young Albrecht Durers Death of Orpheus Warburg outlined his thoughts in fr