View of Toledo
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| Artist | El Greco |
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| Year | 1596-1600 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 121.3 cm × 108.6 cm (47.8 in × 42.8 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
View of Toledo, is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco. The other, called View and Plan of Toledo lies at Museo Del Greco, Toledo, Spain.
Along with Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night and some landscapes by Joseph Turner, it is among the best known depictions of the sky in Western art, and features sharp color contrast between the sky and the hills below. Painted in a Mannerist (or Baroque) style, the work takes liberties with the actual layout of Toledo (some buildings are depicted in different positions than their actual location, but truthfully depicts on the side the Castle of San Servando). It is signed on the lower right corner by El Greco.
[edit] External links
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - View of Toledo
- Essay on this painting from the book Beauty and Terror by Brian A. Oard
- Painting of El Greco
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This was a magnificent painting by El Greco
