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El Greco. View of Toledo.
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1597 - 1599.
Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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"View of Toledo", sometimes called "Toledo in a Storm", is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos).
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).
In introducing the view into his paintings he acknowledges how much his art owed to the inspiration of the town, until a few years before the great Imperial
Capital and still the great ecclesiastical and cultural centre of Spain - the town isolated on the plain of Castile which he had made his new home, so far
from the island of his birth. El Greco painted another view of the town as an independent subject, the View and Plan of Toledo in the Museo del Greco, Toledo,
with the vision of Saint Ildefonso and the Virgin poised above the cathedral.
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