Category: Biographies
Birth and Parentage--Early Days in Lübeck--The Artist's learned and religious Ancestry--His Father Doctor of Laws and Burgomaster--Chart of the Family--Creed for a Purist Painter--Young Overbeck leaves Lübeck for Vienna: his Studies in the Academy--Decadence of Art in the Aust...
Birth and Parentage--Early Days in Lübeck--The Artist's learned and religious Ancestry--His Father Doctor of Laws and Burgomaster--Chart of the Family--Creed for a Purist Painte...
2. Chapter 2Overbeck and his brother Artists reach Rome--The German Colony settle in the Convent of Sant' Isidore--Inspiring surroundings of Art and Nature--Modes of Study and of Life--Over...
3. Chapter 3Overbeck marries, two children born--His position in "Monumental Painting"--Fresco, "The Vision of St. Francis" at Assisi--Inclinations towards Monastic Life--Journey to Germany...
4. Chapter 4Death of Son--Pictures: "The Pietà," in Lübeck; "The Incredulity of St. Thomas," in the possession of Mr. Beresford Hope--Death of Wife--"The Assumption of the Madonna," Cologne...
5. Chapter 5Johann Friedrich Overbeck was born, as a tablet on his father's house records, in Lübeck on the 4th of July, 1789. Among his ancestors were Doctors of Law and Evangelical Pastor...
6. Chapter 6The biographies of artists, proverbially picturesque, present few scenes more pleasant to look on than the early years in Rome of the Brotherhood of German Painters, of whom Ove...
7. Chapter 7The life of Overbeck apportioned itself into successive periods of five, ten, or more years, corresponding to the important works from time to time in hand. The painter threw hi...
8. Chapter 8Overbeck, as we have seen, deliberately laid out his life for tranquillity; but not sheltered, as Fra Angelico, in a cloister, his serene mind was at times clouded by trouble. F...