Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

Solomon's Judgment

When two women claim the same living child, Solomon orders it cut in two, and by the true mother's plea to spare its life he reveals her and gives her the child (1 Kings 3). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

Solomon's Judgment by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting 1 Kings 3:16
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.