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| | Johann Friedrich Overbeck famous artist information |
 | | Overbeck was mentor in the movement; a fellow-labourer writes: No one who saw him or heard him speak could question his purity of motive, his deep insight and abounding knowledge; he is a treasury of art and poetry, and a saintly man. But the struggle was hard and poverty its reward. |
 | | These tentative wall-pictures, fnished in [[1818]], produced so favourable an impression among the Italians that in the same year [[Francesco MassimoPrince Massimo]] commissioned Overbeck, Cornelius, Veit and [[Julius Schnorr von KarolsfeldSchnorr]] to cover the walls and ceilings of his garden pavilion, near St. John [[Lateran]], with frescoes illustrative of [[Torquato TassoTasso]], [[Dante]] and [[Ariosto]]. |
 | | The leisure thus gained was devoted to a thoroughly congenial theme, the Vision of St Francis, a wall-painting 20 ft. long, figures life size, finished in 1830, for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli near [[Assisi]]. |
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