Glossary

The Development of Perspective in Anthroposophy

Perspective, in Rudolf Steiner's reading of art, is the technique by which a painting orders space toward one fixed point of sight. He dates its true arrival to Filippo Brunelleschi...

Greek Sculpture in Anthroposophy

Greek sculpture in Anthroposophy is the art in which the human body was shaped from within, as the visible vessel of the spirit, rather than copied from an external model....

Leonardo's Last Supper in Anthroposophy

Leonardo's Last Supper is the wall painting Leonardo da Vinci made in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan between 1495 and 1498. Rudolf Steiner read it as...

Raphael the Painter in Anthroposophy

Raphael the painter appears in Rudolf Steiner's 1917 Dornach lectures on art as the master of reconciling harmony. Born in Urbino in 1483 and dead at thirty-seven in 1520, Raphael...

Rembrandt in Anthroposophy

Rembrandt stands in Rudolf Steiner's art-history lectures as the first painter of the modern soul. Where the Italian masters lifted appearance toward the sublime type, Steiner saw the Dutchman pour...

Leonardo da Vinci in Anthroposophy

Leonardo da Vinci stands, for Steiner, at a turning-point of the soul. The Greek artist had carved the body out of an inner perception of its forming forces. By Leonardo's...