The Triumph of Christianity in the Arts

Johann Friedrich Overbeck

1829-40

Oil on canvas

392 x 392 cm.

Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

This painting appears as an illustration in web versions of two books on this site: Hugh Witemeyer’s George Eliot and the Visual Arts and as Plate 70 in Lionel Gossman’s Unwilling Moderns: The Nazarene Painters of the Nineteenth CenturyGeorge P. Landow