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
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
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
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Johann Friedrich Overbeck was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement.
Nazarene movement
…cooperative in Vienna called the Brotherhood of St. Luke or Lukasbund, following a common name for medieval guilds of painters. In 1810 four of them, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Franz Pforr, Ludwig Vogel and Johann Konrad Hottinger (1788–1827) moved to Rome, where they occupied the abandoned monastery of San Isidoro. They were…
Self-portrait with family, c. 1820, Behnhaus
Easter Morning
Italia und Germania (Albertinum)
The Adoration of the kings