the Church of St. John the Baptist, Penymynydd, North Wales was built by the Glynne Family of Hawarden, Flintshire. The first vicar, Rev. John Ellis Troughton spent the first 20 years of the life of the church painting the interior with Overbeck murals, including the Palm Sunday one – of which the original was destroyed in an Allied Bombing raid in 1942, overnight into Palm Sunday. Works Portrait of the Painter Franz Pforra (1810) Vittoria Caldoni (1821) Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (1824), in the Marienkirche (destroyed through Allied bombing, Palm Sunday 1942). Christus am Ölberg (1827–1833) Italy and Germany (1828) Christ's Agony in the Garden (1835), in the great hospital, Hamburg. Lo Sposalizio (1836), Muzeum Narodowe, Poznań, Poland. The Triumph of Religion in the Arts (1840), in the Städel Institute, Frankfurt. Pietà (1846), in the Marienkirche, Lübeck. Lamentation of Christ (1846) The Incredulity of St. Thomas (1851), first in the possession of Beresford Hope, London, now in the Schäfer collection, Schweinfurt, Germany. The Assumption of the Madonna (1855), in Cologne Cathedral. The Ascension of the Virgin Mary (1857) Christ Delivered from the Jews (1858), tempera, originally on a ceiling in the Quirinal Palace. It is a commission from Pius IX, and a direct attack on the Italian temporal government, therefore later covered by a canvas adorned with Cupids, and now hanging in front of the Aula delle Benedizione in the Vatican. The Seven Sacraments (sketches are kept in the cathedral of Orvieto) (1861) Baptism 1862–64, Neue Pinakothek, Munich Drawings for the frescoes for the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Đakovo (1867–1869). References Lionel Gossman. “Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck’s ‘Italia und Germania.’” American Philosophical Society, 2007. . at dianepub.wordpress.com External links Johann Friedrich Overbeck in the "History of Art" Italy and Germany Reproduction German masters of the nineteenth century: paintings and drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Johann Friedrich Overbeck (no. 66–68) 1789 births 1869 deaths Actors from Lübeck German engravers German romantic painters Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism German Roman Catholics Jauch family Nazarene painters Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Commanders of the Order of Franz Joseph