Glossary
The Spiritual in Art in Anthroposophy
The Spiritual in Art, in Rudolf Steiner's reading, is the conviction that painting and sculpture exist to render the supersensible perceptible to the senses rather than to imitate nature. Across...
The Evolution of Painting in Anthroposophy
The Evolution of Painting, in Steiner's account, is one continuous gesture of the soul learning to stand on its own. Early Christian and Renaissance painters lifted every face toward a...
The Northern and Southern Streams in Art in Ant...
In Rudolf Steiner's lectures on the history of art, the Northern and Southern streams in art name two opposite ways the European soul learned to paint. The South, ripening in...
Gothic Art in Anthroposophy
Gothic Art is the soaring medieval architecture of the pointed arch and the rib-vault, which Rudolf Steiner approached not as a chapter of style but as a confluence of two...
The Sistine Madonna in Anthroposophy
The Sistine Madonna is Raphael's late masterpiece, a Mother and Child carried on cloud and light between Saint Sixtus and Saint Barbara, with two winged boys resting at the lower...
The Madonna in Art in Anthroposophy
The Madonna in Art, in Rudolf Steiner's reading, is one motif painted again and again across a thousand years, and watching it change is like watching consciousness itself descend. The...