The 16th volume of lectures from the Warburg House, Hamburg, brings together contributions covering a spectrum ranging from the different modes of perception of late antique and medieval mosaics in the light of modern reproduction techniques to Las Hilanderas of Diego Vel zquez, the afterlife of Th odore G ricault's Raft of the Medusa and Ren Magritte's "images peintes" to new reflections on femininity, the gaze and the "afterlife" of the Shoah...