At a Glance
- Exhibition
- El Greco: Themes and Variations
- Dates
- May 15, 2001 to July 29, 2001
- Museum
- The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
- Listing type
- Past Exhibitions
- Description
The Frick Collection's St. Jerome and Purification of the Temple comprised the core of this special exhibition, which was shown in the Oval Room. Together with five loan paintings — all replicas or versions of the two Frick canvases — these works revealed different aspects of the master's recycling of his own compositions. Although El Greco was a highly original painter, he frequently made replicas or related versions of his works, at a time when few if any other major artists did so.
