Raphael's Mission: in the Light of the Science of the Spirit

This lecture on Raphael points to an ever greater inwardness or "internalizing" of the human soul in the future development of humanity. Steiner's large-format watercolours can be said to be an unmistakable further expression of this. Though it might seem improbable at first to link Raphael's works so directly with the painting impulse of Rudolf Steiner, separated as they are by four hundred years. An underlying relation becomes apparent, nonetheless, despite the manifest contrast. The Mado...