View of Toledo
ca. 1599–1600 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in. (121.3 x 108.6 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for most of his life. The painting belongs to the tradition of emblematic city views, rather than a faithful documentary description. The view of the eastern section of Toledo from the north would have excluded the cathedral, which the artist therefore imaginatively moved to the left of the Alcázar (the royal palace). Other buildings represented in the painting include the ancient Alcántara Bridge, and on the other side of the river Tagus, the Castle of San Servando.
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About this artwork
View of Toledo (ca. 1599–1600) by El Greco, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
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