The Hamburger art historian Aby Warburg began his academic career in the late nineteenth century. Almost all of his research and projects focused on determining what was the influence and therefore the survival of Classical Antiquity in post-classical times (Nachleben der Antike). To answer that question Warburg took as its starting point an specific period: the Italian Quattrocento, seen as the moment Antiquity, through the plastic and literary representation of the intensified movement, begins to take a closer form to its Olympian past, and simultaneously initiates the dispossessing of the medieval-astrological attire of which it had served, among other means, to survive during the Middle ages. This process of liberation that carried out ...