El Greco’s “Purification of the Temple,” early 1570’s ... turned out to be some of the largest masterpieces the artist created. “The Disrobing of Christ,” El Greco, 1579. Located in the sacristy of ...

Today’s Gospel (John 2:13-25) focuses on Jesus “cleansing the Temple.” It refers to Jesus ... writing his life of Christ, also speaks of how those who held the high priesthood in New ...

Detail from Christ Carrying the Cross, a work newly attributed to Greek painter El Greco Courtesy of CAEM Known for his elongated renderings of the human body and innovative use of color ...

That said, I am not sure whether it’s useful to present El Greco’s four versions of “Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple” (c.1570, 1575, 1600, 1610-14) in relation to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isn’t that violent?” Many remember El Greco’s unhelpful painting, “Christ Cleansing the Temple,” which depicts Jesus with a raised arm, grasping a twenty foot long whip, ready to strike ...

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 ...

“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 ...