View and Plan of Toledo
| Spanish: Vista y plano de Toledo | |
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| Artist | El Greco |
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| Year | 1608 |
| Type | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 132 cm × 228 cm (52 in × 90 in) |
| Location | Museum of El Greco, Toledo |
View and Plan of Toledo is a work of El Greco, made in 1608 during his last period. It is preserved in the Museum of El Greco of Toledo.
Analysis
This work moves away from the beautiful and stylized descriptions of Toledo, it uses a great meticulousness. This has allowed to assume that it was commissioned by the city council. The enormous detail that was made the plane has caused many scholars to guess that this is a work of Jorge Manuel, son of the painter and expert in architecture. At the top of the canvas is the Virgin Mary, accompanied by a court of angels carrying the chasuble of San Ildefonso. In this work it could read an anticipation of impressionism, and even Paul Cézanne.
Provenance
The painting was probably commissioned by Pedro de Salazar y Mendoza. It appeared on an inventories of goods del Greco in 1614 and Jorge Manuel in 1621. It entered the collection of the Museo del Greco in 1910.[1][2][3]
Bibliography
- Álvarez Lopera, José, El Greco, Madrid, Arlanza, 2005, Biblioteca «Descubrir el Arte», (colección «Grandes maestros»). ISBN 84-95503-44-1.
References
- ↑ "Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España - Museos". ceres.mcu.es. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
- ↑ "Vista y plano de Toledo - Cuadro". www.europeana.eu. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
- ↑ Michael Scholz-Hänsel (2004). El Greco. Taschen. p. 57. ISBN 978-3-8228-3171-7.
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Spanish Wikipedia.