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| | Johann Friedrich Overbeck explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | 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 Prussian consul, Bartholdi, had a house on the brow of the Pincian, and he engaged Overbeck, Peter von Cornelius, Philipp Veit and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow to decorate a room 24 ft. square with frescoes (now in the Berlin gallery) from the story of Joseph and his Brethren. |
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