キリストの衣剥ぎ

El Greco had just settled in Toledo, a Greek painter trained in Venice and Rome, when he made the Disrobing of Christ his Spanish calling card around 1577. The subject is the moment before the Crucifixion, when soldiers strip Jesus of his robe on Golgotha. He gave that robe a deep, burning red, and packed the crowd so tightly that Christ seems pressed upward out of the throng, calm above the jostling. The cathedral clergy who commissioned the first version quibbled. They wanted the three grieving Marys removed, since the Gospels do not place them here, and they fought him over the fee. The picture was popular anyway, and El Greco repeated it many times. This is one of those versions.