Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow was a German Romantic painter.
Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1821)
Illustration from Hundert Jahre in Wort und Bild
Mignon (1828)
Wieńczysław and Konstanty Potocki in Childhood (1820)
Nazarene movement
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The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for
Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow
…In 1806-7 Schadow served as a soldier. In 1810 he traveled with his elder brother Rudolph to Rome where he became one of the leading painters of the Nazarene movement. Following the example of Johann Friedrich Overbeck and others, Schadow, originally a Lutheran, joined the Roman Catholic Church, and held that an…
In Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd (1836), Joseph von Führich attempts to recapture the mood of Perugino and Raphael (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna)
Joseph Anton Koch, Detail of the Dante-Cycle in the Casino Massimo