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Inspirational Art: View of Toledo – El Greco

Posted on the 07 April 2021 by Cendrinemedia @cendrinemedia

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Inspirational art: View of Toledo – El Greco

Title: View of Toledo

Date: ca. 1599-1600

Location: Spain

Artist: El Greco (1836-1893)

Type of art: oil on canvas

Note: Doménikos Theotokópoulos (a.k.a. "El Greco" ) is seen as the precursor of Expressionism and Cubism. He inspired poets and writers, including Rainer Maria Rilke.

This painting is considered his greatest surviving landscape.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art


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