ABSTRACT
Warburg’s wide ranging interests, his difficult use of language and the appar
ent disconnectedness of his projects and their wrecks and ruins. In short,
the published material could only be given real sense through a thorough
and difficult subterranean exploration of his notes, recognising that “ the
spread o f scholarly curiosity is so wide as to obscure the red thread o f a
leading interest.” 28 The red thread was there; the problem was to follow it.
