The Nazarene Movement, the Rome-based group of…

The Nazarene Movement, the Rome-based group of German Romantic painters whose aim has been the revival of honesty and spirituality in Christian art, had disbanded around 1829.

By 1830, all except Johann Friedrich Overbeck have returned to Germany.

Many Nazareners will become influential teachers in German art academies.

The Nazarenes’ program—the adoption of honest expression in art and the inspiration of artists before Raphael—will exert considerable influence in Germany, and in England upon the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

In their abandonment of the academy and their rejection of much official and salon art, the Nazarenes can be seen as partaking in the same anti-scholastic impulse that will lead to the avant-garde in the later nineteenth century.