{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-23/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When Goethe in his time traveled from Leipzig to Dresden, he heard something quite different about the picture of the Madonna. The officials of the Dresden Gallery said something like this to him: “We have also a picture of Raphael’s, but it is nothing particular. It is badly painted. The look of the Child, the whole Child itself, everything to do with the Child, is common. The same with the Madonna. One can only think that she is painted by a dauber. And then these figures down below of which one does not know whether they are meant for children’s heads or angels!” Goethe heard this coarse opinion, so that at first he had no right appreciation of the picture. Everything which we hear about the picture at the present time only came to be understood later on, and the fact that Raphael’s pictures made their triumphal march through the world in reproductions, is a result of this better appreciation. We have only to call to mind what England has done for the reproduction and circulation of these pictures. But what was effected in England by the trouble which has been taken for the reproduction and circulation of Raphael’s pictures, will only be recognised when people have learned to look at the matter from the point of view of spiritual science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Life's Meaning Through Spiritual Science and Reincarnation","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Alles, was wir heute über das Bild hören, das lebte sich erst nachher ein, und der Umstand, daß Raffaels Bilder in den Nachbildungen ihren Siegeszug durch die Welt machten, ist eine Folge dieser besseren Einschätzung. Man braucht nur zu erinnern daran, was gerade England für die Reproduktion und Verbreitung der Bilder Raffaels getan hat. Was aber bewirkt wurde in England dadurch, daß so gesorgt worden ist für die Reproduktion und Verbreitung Raffaelscher Bilder, das wird man erst erkennen, wenn man die Sache vom geisteswissenschaftlichen Standpunkt aus mehr betrachten lernen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1912-05-23/p032"}],"english":["GA 155/1912-05-23/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":204,"en_words":221,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8157,"original_word_count":8442,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1946","book_title":"On the Meaning of Life","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA155/English/RSPC1946/19120523p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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