View and plan of Toledo
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2015.i776.2080Keywords:
fantasy, illusion, repoussoir, in maestà, imaginative system, imaginative logic, equivalent, correspondence, programmatic causality, musical procedureAbstract
In View and plan of Toledo, a faithful representation of the city and homage to it, the vision of the Virgin as well as the nude on the left, allegory of the river Tagus, sustenance of the life of the region represented by the youth clothed in olive-green, all are casual images presented in the sky, on the earth and in the thicket. El Greco’s imagination operates with almost mathematical rigour. A genealogical link can be traced between Jesus’ tunic in the Modena-Triptych, the tunic of the kneeled angel of the Baptism of the Prado and the chasuble carried by the Virgin in Vista y plano. The composition of the picture is related to the Adoration of the first period, repeating the youth with the map the same role of Saint Jerome with the Vulgata.
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