• View and Plan of Toledo is a work of El Greco, made in 1608 during his last period. It is preserved in the Museum of El Greco of Toledo.
  • 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...
  • Stormy skies found on many images of saints, painted by the artist. “View of Toledo” is the only remaining “pure” landscapes of El Greco.
  • El Greco’s View of Toledo does not do that. Although the large church is placed in the correct place in the city, El Greco changed the locations of several other...
  • We see the same skyscape in other more apparently religious works by El Greco such as “the view and plan of Toledo” and “Christ on the Cross”.
  • El Greco completed View of Toledo around 1598-99 and it is found today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, USA.
  • The View of Toledo. SCENIC PROJECT - Placement in Scenic Art Department, Royal Opera House. original by El Greco. supervised by Emma Turner.
  • This mysticism is reflected in El Greco’s View of Toledo. Almost entirely subsumed by the landscape, the city seems to be at the direct mercy of God.
  • There are two surviving landscapes by El Greco: The View of Toledo (Metropolitan Museum, New York) and the View and Plan of Toledo (Museo de El...
  • 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.
    • 2.3 Interpretations of El Greco’s Toledo Painting
    • 2.5 Description of View of Toledo by El Greco
    • 2.6 The Uniqueness of Landscapes in El Greco’s Era
  • View of Toledo is the famous artwork of El Greco. In this picture, the Spanish city of Toledo was shown by El Greco at the summit of a rolling hill using his...