Glossary
Michelangelo in Anthroposophy
Michelangelo (1475 to 1564) is the master Rudolf Steiner reads as will made form: the Florentine sculptor of the colossal David, who carried the soul of Florence into Rome and...
Holbein in Anthroposophy
Holbein, in Rudolf Steiner's history of art, is the painter of the unwavering gaze. Where his elder contemporary Durer reached toward universal types, Hans Holbein the Younger pressed an exact...
Giotto in Anthroposophy
Giotto di Bondone is the painter with whom, in Rudolf Steiner's reading of art history, the soul of Western painting first steps down out of the golden Byzantine heaven and...
Botticelli in Anthroposophy
Botticelli appears in Rudolf Steiner history of art as the painter in whom the inward, soul-borne current set loose by Fra Angelico turns toward a tender naturalism. Steiner watches the...
The Spiritual History of Art in Anthroposophy
The spiritual history of art is the account Rudolf Steiner gave of Western painting and sculpture in his Dornach lecture cycle of 1916 and 1917, where the line of masters...
Fra Angelico in Anthroposophy
Fra Angelico is the early-Renaissance Dominican painter (c. 1395-1455) whom Rudolf Steiner singled out, in his Dornach art-history lectures, as one of the greatest representatives of painting's inward stream. While...