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 Painting in Germany. 551 1. Overbeds and his School. Friedrich Overbeck (1789—1869) stands at the head of the new movement, and may justly be said to have restored the ideal style in sacred subjects, and to have revived the early Italian style as exemplified in the works of Fra Angelico. He first studied art in Vienna, but subsequently, followed by a small band of fellow- thinkers in art, he went to Rome and there founded the School which led to the renaissance of art in German. His chief frescoes are the Miracle of the Roses of S. Francis in S. Maria degli Angioli, at Assisi ; and five scenes from Tasso's ' Jerusalem Delivered/ in the Villa Massimo, Rome. Of his oil-paintings the principal are the Influence of Religion on Art, in the Stadel Institute at Frankfort; the Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem, painted in 1816 for the Marien Kirche at Liibeck ; and Christ on the Mount of Olives, at Hamburg. Of the immediate disciples of Overbeck the most famous were — - Philipp Veit (1793—1877), who studied for some time under Mathai at Dresden, then under his step-father, a painter named Friedrich Schlegel, and subsequently joined the school of Overbeck at Rome, and became one of the most severe in style. He painted there, in fresco, in the Villa Bartholdy the Seven years of Plenty. He afterwards resided at Frankfort-on-Main, where he painted a Good Samaritan for the Cathedral, and at Sachsenhausen. Joseph Fiihrich (1800—1876) first studied at Prague, then in Vienna, and in 1829 went to Rome, where he painted in the Villa Massimo, three scenes from Tasso's ' Jerusalem Delivered.' He afterwards gave himself up to