Nazarenes
A group of German artists who in 1809 in Vienna formed the Brotherhood of St. Luke. During the next year, Cornelius followed Overbeck and Pforr to the monastery of St. Isidore, outside Rome. The purpose of the group was the German religious art to be revised, by following the Dürer’s, Michelangelo’s, Perougino’s examples and those of Raphael’s juvenile period.