Nazarenes
Group of artists working in Rome and later northern Europe from 1818 to the 1840s, several of whom, including FRIEDRICH OVERBECK, FRANZ PFORR and PETER CORNELIUS, had been part of the Lukasbrüder, a small fraternity of young artists originally based in Vienna. The terms ‘Nazarene’ and Lukasbrüder have often been used interchangeably. Strictly speaking, the Lukasbrüder were a formally organized group whose span of activity, in both Vienna and Rome, lasted from 1809 to 1818;
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Nazarenes
Group of artists working in Rome and later northern Europe from 1818 to the 1840s, several of whom, including FRIEDRICH OVERBECK, FRANZ PFORR and PETER CORNELIUS, had been part of the Lukasbrüder, a small fraternity of young artists originally based in Vienna. The terms ‘Nazarene’ and Lukasbrüder have often been used interchangeably. Strictly speaking, the Lukasbrüder were a formally organized group whose span of activity, in both Vienna and Rome, lasted from 1809 to 1818; the Nazarene group embraces the members of the Lukasbrüder and dozens of other artists who shared a leaning toward spiritually ponderous subjects, a commitment to crystalline linearity and local colour and a fascination with Renaissance art of the 15th and early 16th centuries, including the work of Dürer and Raphael. By c. 1817 the Lukasbrüder were beginning to be called Die Nazarener. The name was mockingly applied, probably first by Johann Christian Reinhart, because of the group’s heavy concentration on biblical subjects, the strict monastic life they lived at S Isidoro, a 16th-century Irish Franciscan monastery in Rome, and their costume of wide, trailing cloaks and long flowing hair. The term ‘Nazarene’ later came to be applied to younger artists, including Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (see SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD, (2)), who were followers of the Lukasbrüder and worked in Italy and northern Europe until c. 1850.
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