- NAZARENER
(active 1800s)
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- Nazarener In 1809 two young painters, 0verbeck
and Pforr, founded
a
quasi-religious order, the Lukasbruder (i.e. the Brotherhood of St Luke, the
patron saint of artists), in Vienna with the intention of regenerating German
religious art in imitation of the works of Durer, Perugino and
the young
Raphael. Both went to Rome in 1810 and began working in the deserted
monastery of Sant'lsidoro, where they were soon joined by others, the most
important of whom was Cornelius. Several, including Overbeck, became
Catholics and the group became known mockingly as 'Nazarenes'. As
an
experiment in medieval workshop practice they painted jointly some frescoes
(1816—17: now in Berlin) and decorated the Casino Massimo in Rome (1817
and later), partly by Koch. Their ideas were known and admired in England,
e.g. by Dyce, and influenced the Pre-Raphaelites; they also
influenced Ingres.
- Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
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