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- 1. It’s still unsure when View of Toledo was painted
- 2. It’s the smallest of El Greco’s two surviving landscapes
- El Greco regarded color as the most important element of paintings. In the View of Toledo, there are four main colors, black, white, green and pain blue.
- 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.
- View of Toledo by El Greco In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for most of his life.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Hospital de Tavera’s administrator, Don Pedro Salazar de Mendoza, commissioned El Greco a View of Toledo painting.