Christ driving the Moneychangers from the Temple

Original object type: Artefact
Title: Christ driving the Moneychangers from the Temple
Corporate Creators: Eric Gill
Description:
Along the cornice is inscribed: AGITE NUNC, DIVITES, PLORATE ULULANTES IN MISERIIS VESTRIS, QUAE ADVENIENT VOBIS. DIVITIAE VESTRAE PUTREFACTAE SUNT (Vulgate, James, V, 1 :'Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl in your miseries which shall come upon you. your riches are putrid.' In the panel above the dog: ET CUM FECISSET QUASI FLAGELLUM DE FUNICULIS, OMNES EJECIT DE TEMPLO, ET NUMULARIORUM EFFUDIT AES, ET MENSAS SUBVERTIT. ET DIXIT: NOLITE FACERE DOMUM PATRIS MEI DOMUM NEGOTIATIONIS (Vulgate, John, II, 15: 'And when he had made as it were a little whip of cords, he ejected all from the temple, and the money of the moneychangers he poured out and overthrew their tables. And he sais, Do not make ny Father's house a house of commercialism'.
Date range: c.1921
Keywords: University public sculpture
Subjects: University Subjects > Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies