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 Painting in Germany. 553 painting sacred historic subjects for the decoration of churches. His works bear an evident trace of the influence of Overbeck. He has himself engraved several, some of which are scenes from the history of his native country Bohemia. 2. The School of Munich. Peter von Cornelius (1784 — 1867) was the restorer of the long-disused art of fresco-painting on a large scale, and the founder of the Munich School. At the early age of nineteen he gave proof of considerable genius in the frescoes he painted for the cupola of the old church of Neuss, and four years later he produced a marvellous series of illustrations of Goethe's ' Faust ' and of the ' Nibelungens- lied,' full of bold invention, but perhaps inferior in colour- ing and expression. In 1811 he went to Rome, where he remained for eight years diligently studying the works of the old masters ; and on his return to Germany, at the invitation of Ludwig I. of Bavaria, he embodied the results of his new experience in the great frescoes, by which he is chiefly known, which adorn the Glyptothek and the Ludwig Kirche at Munich — those in the former represent- ing scenes from heathen mythology, in the latter a series of events from the New Testament. Of Cornelius's numerous pupils, his favourite — Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805 — 1874) was the only one who attained to anything of an independent style in the treatment of large compositions. The Battle of the Huns, in the Berlin Museum ; Apollo and the Muses, in the Odeon at Munich, and the wall-painting in Berlin of Homer in Griechenland, are his principal works. He is well-known, too, by his book-illustrations, e. g. those of Goethe's ' Faust ' and of ' Reynard the Fox.'