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Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869)
Religion glorified by the Fine Arts c. 1840
Pencil and chalk on three pieces of cream paper, joined | 142.0 x 118.0 cm (sight) (sight) | RCIN 452387
Audience Room, Osborne House
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This is one of a number of surviving versions of Overbeck’s great oil painting, completed in 1840, which presents the role of art in glorifying religion. Based on Raphael’s Disputa fresco in the Vatican, it shows painters, sculptors and architects standing beneath the Virgin and Child, who are accompanied by figures from the Old and New Testaments.
Signed in monogram: FO
Text adapted from Victoria & Albert: Art & Love, London, 2010Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Ludwig Gruner for £100, and given by Prince Albert to Queen Victoria for Christmas 1847
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and chalk on three pieces of cream paper, joined
Measurements
142.0 x 118.0 cm (sight) (sight)
184.0 x 163.7 cm (frame, external)
Object type(s)
Other number(s)
RL 12090Alternative title(s)
The Triumph of Religion in the Arts
