View of Toledo

El Greco transforms his adopted Spanish city into a brooding, storm-lit vision, green hills and ghostly buildings shuddering beneath an inky sky. One of the earliest pure landscapes in Western art, it pulses with emotion rather than topographical accuracy. It feels startlingly modern.

View of Toledo

El Greco

  • Datec. 1600
  • MovementMannerism
  • WhereMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • RegionUnited States