The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-13

OVERBECk.-Overbeck is dead and thHpL
the loss was quite to be expected in the orey
OF nature, for he was, think, eighty-thre,
none familiar with Rome and who have III
lowed their Sunday mornings with the insni,
tons of his studio, not unfrequently illust,-
ted by his mild observations or conceptionaf
his cartoons. will read the notice without
sigh. Attracted to the Eternal City mas
years ago, like the votaries of art in all 40,
he has been SO intimately connected with h,
ever since, that it is impossible to realize on
VII VIII never again. as one walks the streets
Rome, meet his familiar figure, quaint, ascetie
and pale, wrapped in his shepherd plaid ani
with his long gray curls trembling in the breezs
beneath his broad-1eaved beaver; never come
upon MIN suddenly, rs of old when one least
expected it, like lonely hermit, or a spirit
from the tombs, returning from those medita
tions III the strange and holy haunts around
which made him the heart of that school which
so pralseworthily sought to kindle its genius MT
the unattainable OSCILLATIONS of the ages of
faith. No, one must always meet him Vet ;u
our dreams of Rome, meet him in those walks
,' OF visions, in the Casnpagna beyond meet
MN ht the Sacro Speco and The Porzinap e4uaI
ana the other shrines he was called to adorn
1or he was such a son of Rome, and SO identiI
neu with her patronage of art, that his spirit
must haunt her still. went up to the Via
Pa to his lying IN state and nothing moro tonchT
ing, or suitable, or moro artistic could have
been imagined than the perfect simplicity ofthe
arrangements. The light was not even exclude
ed, and there were gloomy draperies moth
ing to remind one of death. utlowlr. almost
Oh the ground, lay the saint-like form of the
maestro ms hands folded over his scapular and
rosary, just as he fell asleep, and a crown of
!aurel-laid there by Hoffman, or by some low
ing schoiar-at his feet; his beloved easel. and
on 1t studio conception of the Last JUDGMENT.
into which some of it's latest meditatio5s had
been breathed; and around the tribute of ma
lures rivalry with art-plants of tall flowers
with beautifully painted tapers burning he
tween them. He was out for the last time on,
81. Snarless day, and caught n chill. He died
on Friday evening, the 18th of November. mt 6
o'clock. AS the Quarant' Ore began at ST. Ber.
9a:d9, the parish church of Via Pia, on Sun
day, he had to he taken there a day earlier
IMAM he otherwise would, causing great dis
aappoinement for many who would have wished
10 see his face once more. AS it was. there
were lew beyond the German and the artist
colonies who had heard of his death. He was
90 n at Lubbock in 1889, and became a convert
IN MS early years. The solemn obsequies were
cele brated ON Wednesday at Che same church.
ana an, We're well Observation-Disclosures de Merode
inc me General of the Jesuts, the Bavarian and
D9tch ambassadors, Flatz, Pietrich Seity, and
an a tnelr school, many italian members of the
AcaIaethy OF st. Luke, Baron Schroter and sew
erai GERMAN residents, as we'll as some English
o i'll americans. The music was severe. as one
would expect the dirge of German pre- Rapl-
lellte,-homG" Correspondent of the WestminstIs