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 | | He was joined by a goodly company, including Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Philipp Veit, who took up their abode in the old Franciscan convent of San Isidoro and became known among friends and enemies by the descriptive epithet the Nazarenes, the German-Roman artists, the church-romantic painters, the German patriotic and religious painters. |
 | | Their precept was hard and honest work and holy living; they eschewed the antique as pagan, the Renaissance as false, and built up a severe revival on simple nature and on the serious art of Perugino, Pinturicchio, Francia and the young Raphael. |
 | | 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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