Elijah in the Fiery Chariot

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot

ca. 1520

Bronze, partially oil-gilt

And it came to passe as they still went on and talked, that beholde, there appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went vp by a whirlewind into heauen.
2 KINGS 2:11 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

The Met · The Prophets — Elijah, Isaiah, Daniel · CC0 · Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

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