Johann Overbeck - The first Nazarene

Almost 40 years before the founding of the Pre Raphaelite brotherhood in England - there was another group of artists settled in Rome, who first came together with the intention of creating art that harkened back to the ideals of the great Raphael and his predecessors.

Known as “the Brotherhood of St Luke” or, later, as simply “the Nazarenes” (due to the…