Virtual Museum Assignment: The View Of Toledo By El Greco

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Virtual Museum Assignment The View of Toledo, painted by El Greco, is a landscape painting that was worked on from 1598-99. This piece of art work depicts the city of Toledo, located in Spain. The portrait has an ominous feel to it, with the basis of the portrait having been painted with dark colors. Half of the portrait is the dark sky looming in on the city, and the other half consists of the city on top of a hill. The sky takes over the painting, looking as if there was about to be a storm. Many buildings in the View of Toledo were moved around to El Greco’s liking. (Sedef Piker, 2012) Since there were buildings moved around in this painting, this shows that the purpose of the painting was not to show how Toledo looked like. One gets

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