Nazarene movement

The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art.

They met up with Austrian romantic landscape artist Joseph Anton Koch (1768–1839) who became an unofficial tutor to the group.

The principal motivation of the Nazarenes was a reaction against Neoclassicism and the routine art education of the academy system.

Religious subjects dominated their output, and two major commissions allowed them to attempt a revival of the medieval art of fresco painting.

[3] They were also direct influences on the British artists William Dyce and Frederick Leighton and Ford Madox Brown.