Chapter 3

ROME--GERMANY.

Overbeck marries, two children born--His position in "Monumental Painting"--Fresco, "The Vision of St. Francis" at Assisi--Inclinations towards Monastic Life--Journey to Germany--Triumphal Entry into Munich--The Guest of Cornelius--Pictures in the New Pinakathek--Correspondence and friendship with Fräulein Emilie Linder--Visits to Heidelberg, Frankfort, Cologne, and Düsseldorf--Return to Rome--Present at the opening of Raphael's Tomb in the Pantheon--Views of Art become more dogmatic and sacerdotal--Three important easel pictures: "Christ's Agony in the Garden," at Hamburg; "The Marriage of the Virgin," in Count Raczynski's Gallery, Berlin; "The Triumph of Religion in the Arts," Frankfort--The Painter's explanatory disquisition on the last--His habits of work, personal aspect and character 48