Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (El Greco, New York) explained

Purification of the Temple
Artist:El Greco
Year:1600
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:42
Width Metric:52
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
City:New York City
Museum:Frick Collection

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple is a 1595-1600 Christian art painting by El Greco, now in the Frick Collection.[1] It depicts the Cleansing of the Temple, an event in the Life of Christ.

There exist three other copies of the painting and also a faithful reproduction in the National Gallery in London, which has recently been considered as authentic by scholars in the field of visual arts.[2] Two versions and that other on loan from Madrid are titled Purification of the Temple. The one at the National Gallery in Washington is called Christ Cleansing the Temple.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: El Greco - Purification of the Temple . The Frick Collection . 13 February 2014 .
  2. Book: G. M. Goshgarian, GĂ©rard Genette. The work of art: Immanence and Transcendence, Volume 1. 1997. Cornell University Press. 0-8014-8272-0. 165.