He wrote in 1838, “I imagined Elijah as a prophet such as we could really do with today: strong, zealous . . . and yet borne aloft as if on angels’ wings.” Mendelssohn put the Elijah project ...

The prophet Elijah proclaimed God's punishment to King Ahab (1 Kings 21). Wood engraving, published in 1862. Elijah strengthened by the angel (1 Kings 19, 3-8) Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled ...

Elijah is fleeing from Jezebel who is determined to kill him. He went for a day’s journey into the desert, sat beneath a tree and asked that he might die. In this painting, he is asleep in the ...