Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

Lot Flees from Sodom

Urged on by the angels, Lot flees Sodom with his family as fire falls on the city, and his wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt (Genesis 19). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

Lot Flees from Sodom by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting Genesis 19:15
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), Die Bibel in Bildern, Leipzig: Georg Wigand, 1860.Source

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Portrait of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

About Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

1794-1872 · German

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German Nazarene painter whose "Die Bibel in Bildern" (1852–1860), a cycle of 240 woodcuts, became one of the most widely circulated Protestant Bible picture books of the 19th century.