Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (7 September
1789 – 19 March 1862) was a German Romantic painter. In
1806-1807 Friedrich served as a soldier. In 1810 he traveled
with his elder brother Rudolph to Rome where he became one of
the leaders among painters of the Nazarene movement. Following
the example of Johann Friedrich Overbeck and others, he joined
the Roman Catholic Church came from Lutheran Protestantism, and
held that an artist must believe and live out the truths he
essays to paint. The sequel showed that Schadow was qualified to
shine more as a teacher and mentor than as a painter. As an
author, he is best known for his lecture, Ueber den Einfluss des
Christentums auf die bildende Kunst (About The Influence of
Christianity On The Visual Arts) (Düsseldorf, 1843), and the
biographical sketches, Der moderne Vasari (Berlin, 1854). In
Rome, Schadow was given one of his first major commissions when
the Prussian Consul-General, General Jakob Salomon Bartholdy,
befriended the young painter, an