The Sermon on the Mount
Seated on the mountainside before the gathered crowds, Jesus teaches his disciples, beginning with the blessings of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). An oil on copper by the Danish painter Carl Bloch (1877).

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Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish painter best known for the 23-painting cycle on the life of Christ commissioned for the Chapel of Frederiksborg Castle (1865–1879). His warmly lit, intimate scenes are among the most widely reproduced devotional images of the 19th century.
