Franz Anton Erich Moritz Steinla

Franz Anton Erich Moritz Steinla made 19th-century religious prints drenched in chiaroscuro. Try hisVirgin and Child with St. John, where Mary’s face is lit from below like a candle flame in a darkened church. The delicate hatching catches every fold of her veil and the Christ child’s plump wrist—old-school technique that still feels fresh. His other print, The Massacre of the Innocents, piles bodies in cramped darkness while Herod’s soldiers move like shadows. Tap Virgin and Child with St. John to zoom in on Steinla’s needle-thin lines and ink that smells like dust and lamp oil.