El Greco's View of Toledo
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El Greco's *View of Toledo* is a dramatic, visionary landscape painting that portrays the Spanish city under a turbulent sky, exemplifying the artist’s expressive, Mannerist style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| El Greco's View of Toledo canonical | 1 |
| El Greco, View of Toledo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
landscape painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
masterpiece of Mannerist landscape
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one of the earliest Spanish landscape paintings ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Spanish Golden Age ⓘ |
| catalogedAs |
El Greco's View of Toledo
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
El Greco, View of Toledo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| cityOfCollection | New York City ⓘ |
| collection |
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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surface form:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| colorCharacteristic | intense greens and blues ⓘ |
| completionDate | around 1600 ⓘ |
| compositionFeature |
dramatic contrast of light and dark
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elevated, imaginary viewpoint ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| creator | El Greco ⓘ |
| creatorActiveIn | Spain ⓘ |
| creatorBirthName |
El Greco
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surface form:
Doménikos Theotokópoulos
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| creatorCommonName | El Greco ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Greek ⓘ |
| depicts |
Alcázar of Toledo
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Spanish cityscape ⓘ Toledo ⓘ Toledo Cathedral ⓘ dramatic sky ⓘ |
| emotionalTone |
apocalyptic
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mysterious ⓘ |
| genre | landscape ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | dramatically foreshortened terrain ⓘ |
| iconography | visionary transformation of real topography ⓘ |
| inception | c. 1596–1600 ⓘ |
| influenced | modern expressionist landscape painters ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalTitle | Spanish ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| location |
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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surface form:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| material | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| medium | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Mannerism ⓘ |
| museumDepartment | European Paintings ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dramatic, visionary landscape
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expressive distortion of forms ⓘ turbulent sky ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
View of Toledo
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surface form:
Vista de Toledo
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| period | late Renaissance ⓘ |
| skyTreatment | stormy clouds ⓘ |
| style | expressive ⓘ |
| subjectType | urban landscape ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| title | View of Toledo ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
View of Toledo
this entity surface form:
El Greco, View of Toledo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art