CAS AH 287 Lecture 6: German Romanticism III
8 Oct 2016
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Painting appears to express the notion, current during the romantic period, that european culture was composed of a northern element and southern. Friedrich overbeck, italia and germania (1811-28) in 1810, around the same time that friedrich. Each of the two was to paint a picture that at once embodied their friendship and their common artistic ideals. Pforr"s painting, shulamit and maria (1811), was a medieval-style diptych completed shortly before he died of tuberculosis in 1812. It introduced the two competing sources of nazarene inspiration, the serene art of the early. Italian renaissance and the pious, contemplative painting of the artists" native northern europe, in form of two female allegorical figures. In the guise of a raphaelite madonna, shulamit sits in a walled garden in a classical, Mediterranean landscape, while maria sits alone in a flemish interior, contemplating her hair and a book of hours. Overbeck did not complete his version of the friendship allegory at the time.
