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The article looks at Aby Warburg’s correspondence with Czech art historians Vincenc Kramář and Karel Chytil, and the prominent Czech biographer Čeněk Zíbrt. Warburg had a lifelong interest in iconography and iconology, and was particularly interested in Greek mythology and its influence on astrology. In the latter half of the 1920s, he approached Czech scholars with a query regarding pictorial documentation...