Chapter 2

ROME--THE GERMAN BROTHERHOOD.

Overbeck 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--Overbeck "a Treasury of Art and Poetry, a saintly Man"--"The New-Old School," "the Nazarites," provoke opposition and ridicule--State of Art in Rome: Classic, Romantic, Christian--First Commission: early Drawings and Pictures--Exhibition in Palazzo Caffarelli--Overbeck and his Friends join the Roman Catholic Church--Reasons assigned--Literary circle: Niebuhr, Bunsen, and Friedrich Schlegel--Frescoes by Overbeck, Cornelius, Veit, and Schadow in the Casa Bartholdi and the Villa Massimo 19