Aby Warburg (1866-1929) was an innovative and influential art historian whose interests ranged from the Italian Renaissance to Hopi ritual dances, from frescoes to postage stamps, combining art and culturalhistory, anthropology and religion. He explored the after life of antiquity, the tensions between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, the rational and irrational, the secular and religious in Renaissance paintings of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. This one hour documentary traces the development of Warburg’s ideas in the context of his life and times and his personal struggle with depression and psychosis. Told largely through Warburg’s own words and interviews with leading Warburg scholars in England, the US, and Germany.