El Greco sets Toledo high on a green ridge beneath a storm-dark sky, its pale buildings flaring against the clouds. Landscape was rare in Spanish painting, and this one bends the facts: several landmarks are moved to suit the composition. It reads less as a map than as a portrait of a city of the spirit, raised on its hill like a pedestal.
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The Castle of San Servando on the left is placed accurately; several other landmarks are not. The artist signed in Greek letters, lower right, as Domenikos Theotokopoulos.
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