Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

Mary Magdalene Seeks the Lord

Finding the stone taken away, Mary Magdalene weeps at the empty tomb and stoops to look inside, where two angels in white sit where the body of Jesus had lain (John 20). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

Mary Magdalene Seeks the Lord by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting Mark 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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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.