- View of Toledo was centuries ahead of its time, and probably can best be compared to Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, 1889 ... View from Toledo by El Greco.
- 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 by El Greco In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for most of his life.
- Summary. El Greco: View of Toledo wikidata:Q883994 reasonator:Q883994. Artist. ... label QS:Lfr,"Vue de Tolède". label QS:Len,"View of Toledo".
- 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 roots of View of Toledo lie in an earlier work by El Greco, St. Joseph and the Christ Child: an identical view of the city appears in that painting's background.
- From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, El Greco, A View of Toledo (1598-1599), Oil on canvas, 47 3/4 × 42 3/4 in.
- El Greco, View Of Toledo (criticism). ... Toledo's skyline has changed little since El Greco immortalized Spain's religious centre in 1597-9....
- The Hospital de Tavera’s administrator, Don Pedro Salazar de Mendoza, commissioned El Greco a View of Toledo painting.