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Navarino
Naval engagement in the War of Greek Independence against Turkey. A fleet of British, French, and Russian ships was sent to aid Greece by intercepting supplies to the Egyptian-Turkish fleet anchored in the Navarino Bay in the Peloponnese. Shortly after it entered the harbor, the superior guns of the European fleet sent three-fourths of the larger Egyptian-Turkish fleet to the bottom and forced others aground. The defeat marked the last significant battle between wooden sailing ships and led to Turkey's evacuation from Greece.


Nazarenes
Members of the Brotherhood of St. Luke, an association formed in 1809 by young German, Swiss, and Austrian painters in reaction against Neoclassicism. It was the first effective antiacademic movement in European painting. They acquired the nickname Nazarenes when four of them visited Rome, because of their biblical style of hair and dress. The Nazarenes believed that all art should serve a moral or religious purpose. They admired medieval and early Renaissance painters and rejected most subsequent painting, believing it abandoned religious ideals in favor of artistic virtuosity. Members lived and worked together in a semimonastic existence, trying to imitate the teaching situation of the medieval workshop. Its leading members were Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869), Franz Pforr (1788-1812), and Peter von Cornelius (1783-1867).


Patarine
Member of a group of craftsmen, tradesmen, and peasants organized in Milan c.1058 to call for reform of the imperial church. Named for the Pataria, the quarter of Milan where they assembled, the Patarines attacked clerical concubinage and marriage and opposed the papacy's moral corruption and temporal powers. They drew support from Pope Gregory VII and subsequent reform popes. They anticipated the movements for religious reform that were to develop in the 12th cent.

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