Nazarene movement
The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of clothing and hair style.
For other uses of "Nazarene", see Nazarene (disambiguation).Legacy[edit]
The programme of the Nazarenes—the adoption of what they called honest expression in art and the inspiration of artists before Raphael—was to exert considerable influence in Germany upon the Beuron Art School,[2] and in England upon the Pre-Raphaelite movement.[3] They were also direct influences on the British artists William Dyce and Frederick Leighton and Ford Madox Brown.[4]