• When the artist El Greco captured this view of the Spanish city of Toledo, he painted one of the earliest landscape works in modern Western art.
  • The city of Toledo is at the very top of the hill in View of Toledo. Art historian, Walter Liedtke, speculates that El Greco wanted to emphasize the greatness of...
  • The View of Toledo. SCENIC PROJECT - Placement in Scenic Art Department, Royal Opera House. original by El Greco. supervised by Emma Turner.
  • In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings. ... View of Toledo El Greco • 1599.
  • El Greco only painted two landscapes, and this was his second. A dizzying look down at the Spanish city of Toledo, the horizon slopes away towards a...
  • El Greco The Complete Works. El Greco - The Last Supper c. 1568. El Greco - View and Plan of Toledo c. 1610. El Greco - St. Francis Venerating the Crucifix.
  • The Hospital de Tavera’s administrator, Don Pedro Salazar de Mendoza, commissioned El Greco a View of Toledo painting.
  • A chapel for Eleonora di Toledo, Duchess of Florence. Giambologna, Abduction of a Sabine Woman. ... El Greco. Burial of the Count Orgaz. View of Toledo.
  • View of Toledo is one of the most famous paintings by the Spanish artist El Greco. The canvas is unique: it is one of the two surviving landscapes of the master.
  • View of Toledo was centuries ahead of its time, and probably can best be compared to Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, 1889 ... View from Toledo by El Greco.
  • For example, a view of Toledo appears in the background of El Greco's altarpiece in the Capilla de San José, Toledo, which was commissioned in 1597.
  • If a random person off the street saw El Greco’s View of Toledo, I don’t think they would say a contemporary of Michelangelo painted it.
  • The View of Toledo is the only independent landscape El Greco made of Toledo, but the city is depicted in several other works, including with a map in the "View