Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

Destruction of Jerusalem and Exile to Babylon

The army of Babylon breaks through the walls, burns the temple and the city, and carries the people of Judah away into exile (2 Kings 25). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

Destruction of Jerusalem and Exile to Babylon by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting 2 Kings 25:1
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.