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

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Year
  
1600

Artist
  
El Greco

Medium
  
Oil on canvas

Created
  
1600

Dimensions
  
42 cm × 52 cm (17 in × 20 in)

Location
  
Frick Collection, New York City

Similar
  
Retrato de un caballero, Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi, Saint Peter and Saint Paul, View and Plan of Toledo, Laocoön

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple is a 1595-1600 Christian art painting by El Greco, now in the Frick Collection. 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. 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.

References

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