Nazarener or Nazarenes. Group of German painters who aimed for a greater religious spirit through a return to earlier methods and attitudes of late medieval and early Rennaissance art. Founded in 1809 by Overbeck and Pforr in Vienna as the Lukasbrüder, to rejuvenate German religous painting via the example of Albrecht Dürer, Perugino and the early work of Raphael. Established a workshop near Rome in the ruined monastry of San Isidoro in 1810. Joined by others including Cornelius. Some members of the group converted to Catholicism. The group also aimed to revive the art of fresco and during 1816-17, produced frecoes for the Bartholdi Palace (now in Berlin) and the Casino Massimo, completed in 1829. Exhibited works in the Hanoverian Embassy, the Palazzo Caffarelli, in 1819. The earliest account of the work of the Nazarenes published in England was in the Annals of the Fine Arts, 1818 (published in 1819) (see Vaughan, German Romanticism and English Art). This was soon after the completion of the Bartholdi frescoes. Information of a supportive nature on the Nazarenes also appeared in the London Magazine in 1820. The movement had some influence on the early work of the Pre-Raphaelites.