CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. LÜBECK--VIENNA. Birth and Parentage--Early Days in Lübeck--The Artist's learned and religious Ancestry--His Father Doctor of Laws and Burgomaster--Chart of the Family--Creed for a Purist Painter--Young Overbeck leaves Lübeck for Vienna: his Studies in the Academy--Decadence of Art in the Austrian Capital--Rise of the German Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood--Conflict between the Old Party and the New--Overbeck and his Friends expelled from the Academy--He resolves to make Christian Art the Vocation of his Life--Leaves Vienna for Rome Page 1 CHAPTER II. ROME--THE GERMAN BROTHERHOOD. Overbeck and his brother Artists reach Rome--The German Colony settle in the Convent of Sant' Isidore--Inspiring surroundings of Art and Nature--Modes of Study and of Life--Overbeck "a Treasury of Art and Poetry, a saintly Man"--"The New-Old School," "the Nazarites," provoke opposition and ridicule--State of Art in Rome: Classic, Romantic, Christian--First Commission: early Drawings and Pictures--Exhibition in Palazzo Caffarelli--Overbeck and his Friends join the Roman Catholic Church--Reasons assigned--Literary circle: Niebuhr, Bunsen, and Friedrich Schlegel--Frescoes by Overbeck, Cornelius, Veit, and Schadow in the Casa Bartholdi and the Villa Massimo 19 CHAPTER III. ROME--GERMANY. Overbeck marries, two children born--His position in "Monumental Painting"--Fresco, "The Vision of St. Francis" at Assisi--Inclinations towards Monastic Life--Journey to Germany--Triumphal Entry into Munich--The Guest of Cornelius--Pictures in the New Pinakathek--Correspondence and friendship with Fräulein Emilie Linder--Visits to Heidelberg, Frankfort, Cologne, and Düsseldorf--Return to Rome--Present at the opening of Raphael's Tomb in the Pantheon--Views of Art become more dogmatic and sacerdotal--Three important easel pictures: "Christ's Agony in the Garden," at Hamburg; "The Marriage of the Virgin," in Count Raczynski's Gallery, Berlin; "The Triumph of Religion in the Arts," Frankfort--The Painter's explanatory disquisition on the last--His habits of work, personal aspect and character 48 CHAPTER IV. LATE WORKS--CONCLUSION--THE PAINTER AND HIS ART.