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

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple
Artist El Greco
Year 1570
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 117 cm × 150 cm (46 in × 59 in)
Location Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple is a 1571 Christian art painting by El Greco, now in the Minneapolis Institute of Art.[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.

References

  1. "Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple". Minneapolis Institute of Art. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  2. G. M. Goshgarian, Gérard Genette (1997). The work of art: Immanence and Transcendence, Volume 1. Cornell University Press. p. 165. ISBN 0-8014-8272-0.


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