View of Toledo

Infobox Painting|

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title=View of Toledo
artist=El Greco
year=1596-1600
type=Oil on canvas
height=47.75
width=42.75
city=New York City
museum= Metropolitan Museum of Art

"View of Toledo", is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco today. 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.

External links

* [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=11&viewMode=1&item=29.100.6 www.metmuseum.org]