Carl Heinrich Bloch1875

Casting Out the Money Changers

Finding the temple courts turned into a marketplace, Jesus makes a whip of cords and drives out the money changers, overturning their tables (John 2). An oil on copper by the Danish painter Carl Bloch (1875).

Casting Out the Money Changers by Carl Heinrich Bloch depicting John 2:13
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834–1890), including the Frederiksborg Castle cycle on the life of Christ.Source

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About Carl Heinrich Bloch

1834-1890 · Danish

Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish painter best known for the 23-painting cycle on the life of Christ commissioned for the Chapel of Frederiksborg Castle (1865–1879). His warmly lit, intimate scenes are among the most widely reproduced devotional images of the 19th century.