El Greco’s famous landscape 'View of Toledo,' at the Met, celebrates his adopted city, ... In El Greco’s painting, the city and its gray-blue buildings are suitably majestic.

Bailey sees in that aspect of El Greco’s art part of its appeal to modern eyes. “In some ways the 20th century responded to him as a visionary expressionist,” Bailey said.

“View of Toledo” (about 1598—99) by El Greco. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929./Art Institute of Chicago ...

Item 1 of 6 Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco is seen (3rd L) in his painting "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" in the Santo Tome church in Toledo, January 22, 2014.

Art: EL GRECO’S LAST GLORIA. 3 minute read. TIME. December 17, 1956 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... For El Greco. Toledo was an ideal city. Saint Theresa and St. John of the Cross were fellow citizens, ...

On my last visit to Toledo, it seemed holier than ever: Dark El Greco clouds threatened overhead, stark against bright, clear ...

by Rick Steves, April 22, 2025 | Toledo, which can be enjoyed as a day trip from Madrid, offers most stunning (and Gothic) cathedrals in Spain, plus plenty of El Greco art.

Madrid. The conventual church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain, played a crucial role in the life and work of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco.