- 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.
- El Greco's View of Toledo is another crazy vision of a city. ... Everything said so far has cast View of Toledo as a visionary scene, awesome and overwhelming.
- 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.
- One of the two surviving landscapes of Toledo painted by El Greco, this piece is sometimes considered the first expressionist landscape in Western art.
- One Response to “El Greco: View of Toledo”. Greco fan says ... Toledo is preparing to commemorate the 4th centenary of the death of “El Greco”.
- El Greco only painted two landscape paintings, both of the Spanish city of Toledo. In this impressionistic view of the city, El Greco rearranged the...
- 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.
- Toledo was the religious capital of Spain and El Greco's 'View of Toledo' is a landscape painting with a spiritual dimension.
- Another notable work by El Greco is “View and Plan of Toledo,” which juxtaposes the view of Toledo with a trompe l’oeil map of the city’s streets.