El Greco

View of Toledo

US$ 558.00

Toledo under a black-green storm sky, the cathedral and Alcazar rearranged from their true positions because the composition wanted them elsewhere. It is one of only two surviving landscapes he painted, and it feels less like a view than a state of mind. The lightning-lit hillside has made it one of the most reproduced images in Spanish art.

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Artist

El Greco (1541-1614) was born on Crete, trained in the Byzantine icon tradition, absorbed Titian and Tintoretto in Venice, then settled in Toledo for the last thirty-seven years of his life. His elongated figures and cold acid colour looked like errors to later centuries, and he was largely dismissed until Cezanne and Picasso recognised what he had been doing. He is now read as one of the most original painters who ever lived.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 34 × 38 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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