Nazarene movement

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The Nazarene movement was an early 19th-century German Romantic art movement of painters who sought to revive the spirituality and stylistic purity of late medieval and early Renaissance Christian art.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian art movement
Romantic movement
art movement
artisticTechnique fresco painting
history painting
countryOfOrigin Germany
endTime late 19th century
foundedBy Franz Pforr
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
hasAlternativeName Brotherhood of St. Luke movement
Nazarenes
hasCharacteristic bright, clear color
communal artistic life
linear clarity
medievalizing tendencies
religious subject matter
simplicity of composition
spiritual intensity
hasGoal rejection of academic classicism
revival of Christian spirituality in art
revival of early Renaissance artistic ideals
revival of late medieval artistic ideals
hasMember Franz Pforr
Friedrich Overbeck circle
Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
Joseph Anton Koch NERFINISHED
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Peter von Cornelius NERFINISHED
Philipp Veit
hasPart Brotherhood of St. Luke
Lukasbund
inception circa 1809
early 19th century
influenced 19th-century religious painting
Catholic devotional imagery
German historicist art
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
influencedBy Fra Angelico
German Romantic literature
German medieval religious painting
Giotto di Bondone
Middle Ages revivalism
Perugino
Raphael
Roman Catholic piety
early Renaissance Italian art
late medieval Christian art
locationOfActivity Rome
locationOfFormation Vienna
movement German Romanticism
namedAfter Jesus of Nazareth
notableWork frescoes in Casa Bartholdy, Rome
frescoes in Casino Massimo, Rome
opposedTo Neoclassicism in art academies
secularization of art
religion Christianity
Roman Catholicism
subjectFocus Christian allegory
biblical scenes
saints and martyrs

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Düsseldorf school of painting
Ford Madox Brown ("Nazarenes")
influencedBy
Nazarene movement ("Nazarenes")
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