a new canvas with cupids and putti was
stretched over it, and the Pope's sitting room is now turned into Prince
Humbert's bedroom. This brutality might almost justify the good painter
in his belief that Satan is now let loose upon earth. Yet the plea has
not without reason been urged that the picture is a deliberate attack on
the King's temporal power. The original cartoon was, in 1876, exhibited
in the National Gallery, Berlin, and the same subject the artist
repeated in an oil picture (10 feet by 8 feet), now in the Antwerp
Museum. Overbeck had been made a "Membre effectif" of the Antwerp
Academy in 1863, and the commission for this _replica_ followed thereon.
I am told on authority that in Antwerp "the work is considered very
mediocre."]

[Illustration: JOANNES FRIDERICUS OVERBECK IN PACE

THE RESTING-PLACE OF OVERBECK IN THE CHURCH OF SAN BERNARDO,
ROME, IS MARKED BY A CROSS OF WHITE MARBLE BORDERED WITH
BLACK, AND BEARING AN INSCRIPTION AS ABOVE.]

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF OVERBECK.

A.D. PAGE

1789. Overbeck born at Lubeck, 4th July 1
His Ancestors for three generations Protestant Pastors 3
His father Burgomaster, Doctor of Laws, and Poet 5

1800. His Home Education 7

1805. His First Drawing 9

1806. Leaves Lubeck for Vienna 9
Student in Viennese Academy 10

1809. Begins painting _Christ's Entry into Jerusalem_ 11

1810. Rebels against the Viennese Academy, and is expelled 15
Leaves Vienna and reaches Rome 18

1811. German Brotherhood of pre-Raphaelites 20
Monastery of Sant' Isidoro, the Dwelling of the Fraternity 24
First Commission 28

1813. Overbeck joins the Roman Catholic Church 33

1817. Niebuhr, Bunsen, and Schlegel, literary friends 34-40

1818. Frescoes, _The History of Joseph,_ in the Casa Bartholdi 40
Frescoes, _Jerusalem Delivered,_ in the Villa Massimo;
commission for 44-47

1819. Exhibition in Palaz