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A Reexamination Of El Greco’S View And Plan Of Toledo As A Question Of Sources And Patronage, Cameron Ewald Quade
A Reexamination Of El Greco’S View And Plan Of Toledo As A Question Of Sources And Patronage, Cameron Ewald Quade
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El Greco’s View and Plan of Toledo (c. 1610, Museo del Greco, Toledo) explores multiple ways of representing space by juxtaposing a sweeping view of the city of Toledo with a trompe l’oeil map of the city’s streets. Recent scholarship has shown that that El Greco probably copied the map from a plan of Toledo in the Atlas de El Escorial (1538-45), a royal commission that would have been the first complete atlas of Spain. Significantly, this atlas was likely available to the owner and probable patron of View and Plan of Toledo, the scholar and map collector Pedro Salazar …