Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

Jesus Casts Out Devils

In the country of the Gerasenes, Jesus frees a man tormented by a legion of unclean spirits, which he sends into a herd of swine that rush down the steep bank into the sea (Mark 5). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

Jesus Casts Out Devils by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting Mark 5:1
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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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.