• 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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • El Greco - View of Toledo. ... By darkening the color of the clouds in the areas closest to the city, El Greco highlights the impressive architecture of Toledo...
  • 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”.
  • 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 Hospital de Tavera’s administrator, Don Pedro Salazar de Mendoza, commissioned El Greco a View of Toledo painting.