Art Institute of Chicago
Kneeling Pilgrim with Cross and Book
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
- Date
- 1826
- Medium
- Etching on white wove paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Executed during Johann Friedrich Overbeck’s stay in Rome, Kneeling Pilgrim with Cross and Book provides the viewer with an insight into the artist’s spiritual conviction. Overbeck, a founding member of the Brotherhood of Saint Luke, or the Nazarene movement, viewed art as a way to regenerate religiosity in society. The Nazarenes showed their devotion to God by adapting the styles and ideas of the Renaissance. Overbeck’s sophisticated use of etching, exemplified by delicate cross-hatching and fine lines, produced an image that evokes religious depictions of the past, thus promoting traditional Christian sentiments to an increasingly materialistic society.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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