The Nazarenes was a group of German artists that formed in the early 19th century and whose goal was to revive Christian art. They intended to do this by returning to the paintings of Italian Renaissance artists, notably Perugino and Raphael.
The Nazarenes
In 1809, the young German painters Franz Pforr (1788-1812) and Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) founded the Brotherhood of St Luke in Vienna.
Nazarenes (Art)
(aka 'Lukasbruder' - the Brotherhood of Saint Luke) ...
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N.E.A. - See National Education Association (NEA) and local: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and remote: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
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The Nazarenes broke up as a group in the 1820s, but their ideas continued to be influential.
The artistic achievement of the Nazarenes is difficult to evaluate; their finished paintings appear less impressive with the perspective of history than they did to their contemporaries.
He became influenced by Pau Mila i Fontals, who had worked with the Nazarenes in Rome. This attracted him to the revival in crafts taking place at this time, and he came to venerate the honesty of medieval art.
Another school of German romantic painting was formed by the group called the Nazarenes, who attempted to recover the style and spirit of medieval religious art; its leading figure was Johann Friedrich Overbeck.
landscape gardening was used to express the romantic aesthetic for the way it imitated the picturesque qualities of nature. Romantic artists such as Gericault, Herny Fuseli, Arnold Bocklin, the English Pre-Raphaelites and the German Nazarenes are ...
They aimed to go back to a more genuine art, exemplified as they saw it by the work of the Nazarenes, and rooted in realism and truth to nature.
 See also: Painting, Roman, Movement, Classic, The Nazarenes
  
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