“Christ Cleansing the Temple” (1567-70), on loan from the National Gallery of Art, is probably the earliest version – its strong Italian Renaissance style suggests that El Greco painted it ...

The Catholic Church’s attempts to purify itself after the Protestant Reformation is a constant theme in El Greco’s work, prominently featured in “Christ Cleansing the Temple,” which ...

The following excerpt may suffice to convey the excited spirit of Meier-Graefe’s response to El Greco: “We went again … to Berute’s collection. The Expulsion from the Temple by El Greco ...

Greco was born Domenikos Theotokolpoulos in Crete in 1541. The Italians called him El Greco ... loan of all four versions of Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple, painted in 1570, 1575 ...