Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

Michael and the Dragon

War breaks out in heaven as Michael and his angels fight the great dragon, who is thrown down to the earth with his angels (Revelation 12). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

Michael and the Dragon by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting Revelation 12:7
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.