View of Toledo is one of the two surviving landscape paintings by the Spanish Renaissance master El Greco, along with View and Plan of Toledo, and is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is counted among the best known depictions of the sky in Western art, alongside Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night and the landscapes of J. M. W. Turner and Claude Monet; the art historian Keith Christiansen described it as one of Western art most celebrated landscapes.
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Year CreatedArt historians dispute the exact date. Wethey places it 1595 to 1600 on stylistic grounds; other literature places it after 1600 and before El Greco's death in 1614. 1600 recorded as Wethey's later bound, the estimate this article treats as the leading view. LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 1 Connections
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View of Toledo, is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco, along with View and Plan of Toledo. View of Toledo is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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art historian Harold Wethey believes it was painted between 1595 and 1600 because of the similarities to El Greco's other piece, Saint Joseph and the Christ Child.
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View of Toledo, is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco, along with View and Plan of Toledo.
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