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The History of Art

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Sketch of Rudolf Steiner lecturing at the East-West Conference in Vienna.



The History of Art

(The last 4 lectures)

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The History of Art

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Lectures Section

Here are the previously untranslated last four lectures from The History of Art, with Slides. The "slides," in this case, are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The slides were not included with this typescript version, but we found these images and have added them to the text.

By Rudolf Steiner

Translated by Hanna von Maltitz
Bn 292.2; GA 292; CW 292

Here are the previously untranslated last four lectures from The History of Art, with Slides. The “slides,” in this case, are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The slides were not included with this typescript version, but we found these images and have added them to the text.

These are the last four lectures from the lecture series entitled, The History of Art as an Image of an Inner Spiritual Impulse, published in German as, Kunstgeschichte Als Abbild Innerer Geistiger Impuls.

This lecture series is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 292.2, GA 292, CW 292.

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CONTENTS

 Summaries and Contents  
 
Lecture X: “Disputa” of Raphael — the School of Athens October 05, 1917
The artistic representation of imaginative-spiritual imagery of the Fourth post Atlantean epoch moving towards the start of the more materialistically orientated 5th epoch. Raphael: “Disputa” and “School of Athens”.

Lecture XI: Icons, Miniatures, German Masters October 15, 1917
The battle for individual artistic expression in the middle of the assertion of traditional eastern (Icons) from the south during the important period during the decline of the fourth and the rise of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. Icons, miniatures, German Masters.

Lecture XII: Ancient Christian sculpture; Sarcophagi and Reliefs; Bernward von Hildesheim. October 22, 1917
The echoes of the three main influences of the fourth post Atlantean epoch, growing together in time with city culture towards the gold and gemstone art worked into the fifth epoch: old Christian sculpture, sarcophagi and relief. Bernward von Hildesheim.

Lecture XIII: Ancient Christian paintings and mosaic; Italian Masters; Dürer October 29, 1917
The Transformation in the understanding of Christ in artistic representation: Old-Christian painting and mosaic. Italian masters. Dürer.

 
 Index of Artists  




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