• 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.
  • 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’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...
    • 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
  • 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.
  • Of special note is the landscape from the El Greco House Museum “View and plan of Toledo”, the last significant work of the master.
  • 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 the eastern section of Toledo from the north would have excluded the cathedral, which the artist therefore imaginatively moved to the le...
  • NOTE: View of Toledo is one of the first 'pure' landscape paintings in Western art, and one of only two surviving landscapes by El Greco.
  • View of Toledo, circa 159… ... Toledo is preparing to commemorate the 4th centenary of the death of “El Greco”.
  • The Hospital de Tavera’s administrator, Don Pedro Salazar de Mendoza, commissioned El Greco a View of Toledo painting.
  • El Greco painted several views of Toledo. Seen beneath mountainous clouds the city stirred his imagination and in this painting, as in others...