Cleansing the Temple Polychrome Relief - Amiens Cathedral
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walwyn Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:43
These polychrome reliefs in Amiens cathedral are of Jesus Cleansing the Temple. They were donated in 1523 by Jean Wytz and are on the west wall of the north transept.1
Jesus appears in front of the moneylenders in the square.
And shouts abuse at them.
The loaves of the twelve tribes of Israel.
The high priest censes the Ark of the Covenant.
- 1. La cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens. (Centre des monuments nationaux, 2003). p72.