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View of Toledo (original title Vista de Toledo), is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco.

This view of his beloved city of Toledo - probably one of the most famous landscape paintings in history - captures the distant panorama of a city that straggles from the towered castle of San Servando on the left (below which is the Agaliense Monastery), across the high span of the Roman Alcantara bridge over the Tagus river, and up the hill to the tower of the cathedral and the stone mass of the Alcazar palace, where Hernan Cortes was received by Charles I in 1521, following Cortes' conquest of the Aztecs. (Note: Using artistic licence, El Greco moved the cathedral to the left of the palace, so it could be seen.) Threatening, swirling clouds are pierced by light that illuminates the contours of the hills, the curve of the roads, and the incongruous green trees. The storm may break at any moment and erase the view before us, but by depicting this scene in paint, El Greco has ensured it will never happen. A prelude to the Spanish Baroque art of the 17th century (including the Spanish painting in Naples: 1600-1700) - and contemporaneous with devotional works by Francisco Ribalta (1565–1628) - View of Toledo is the ultimate example of Mannerist Romanticism, with its menacing, almost apocalyptic atmosphere, and its gloomy colours. A masterpiece of Spanish painting, this is a wonderful example of El Greco's always troubled, always triumphant art.

A View of Toledo (1598-1599)
El Greco
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oil on canvas, 47 3/4 × 42 3/4 in.

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