Casting out the Money Changers
Carl Bloch captures the rare moment when Jesus loses his temper in this dramatic temple scene. Instead of the peaceful figure often depicted, here he wields a whip of cords, driving out merchants and overturning tables in a righteous fury. The chaos is palpable—coins scatter across the stone floor, a man scrambles to save his goods, and doves take flight in panic. Bloch, a Danish master of Realism, painted this with such intense emotion that it became a definitive image of the 'Cleansing of the Temple,' widely used in religious education today.
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