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Johann Friedrich Overbeck - Publications

Painter, born in Lübeck, N Germany. He studied art in Vienna (1806–10), and led the group of German artists known as the Nazarenes, or Lucas Brotherhood, which went to Rome (1810). He painted in fresco as well as oil, mainly religious and historical subjects, notably the ‘Rose Miracle of St Francis’ (1829, Portiuncula Chapel at Assisi).

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