View and Plan of Toledo is a landscape painting by El Greco. The image is notable for its juxtaposition of the view of Toledo with the trompe l'oeil map of the city's streets. In the composition, El Greco also included an allegory of the Tagus River, a scene of the Virgin Mary placing a chasuble on Saint Ildefonsus, and an elevation of the Tavera Hospital floating on a cloud. It was probably originally commissioned by Pedro Salazar de Mendoza and is currently preserved in the El Greco Museum in Toledo, Spain.
View and Plan of Toledo
El Greco, View of Toledo, 1596-1600, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Portrait of Pedro Salazar de Mendoza, who likely commissioned View and Plan of Toledo
The El Greco Museum is located in Toledo, Spain. It celebrates the mannerist painter El Greco, who spent much of his life in Toledo, having been born in Fodele, Crete.
View of the El Greco Museum in Toledo, Spain
Entrance
Tiled image of San Sebastian
Courtyard