Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism - Cordula Grewe - Bog

After a century of Rationalist skepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival. From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the torchbearer of a new religious art: Nazarenism. This study deals with Nazarenism.