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However, they were believed to be commissioned by Pedro Salazar de Mendoza as they were found to be a part of his personal collection after his death. Salazar was very passionate about Toledo in every aspect. Due to Salazar's love of the city, it is believed to have inspired El Greco to paint both View of Toledo and View and Plan of Toledo. [2]
The painting takes a view of Toledo from the north looking southward. This could be interpreted as a view from the tower of the Tavera Hospital or from the gallows near the cemetery. [ 5 ] Many major landmarks of the city are recognizable, including the Bisagra Gate , the Toledo Cathedral , the Alcázar de Toledo and Saint Martin's Bridge .
Pages in category "Paintings in the Toledo Museum of Art" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio. It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. [ 3 ] With 45 galleries, it covers 280,000 square feet and is currently in the midst of a massive multiyear expansion plan to its 40-acre campus.
The Crowning of Saint Catherine is an oil-on-canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Toledo Museum of Art. It portrays Catherine of Alexandria , an early-4th-century martyr, being crowned by the infant Jesus, sitting on his mother's lap.
It was founded in March 2005 by Thomas Pounds, a veteran administrator of daily newspapers in Toledo and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On March 10, 2010, the paper added a Wednesday edition called the Toledo Free Press STAR, that was only available on newsstands throughout Northwest Ohio. The second edition focuses "on local arts and sports with a ...
It was later sold to a private collection in Britain on July 1, 1953 by Sotheby's in London and this sale was the first with Valentin Boulogne as the artist. The painting was then purchased by the Toledo Museum of Art in 1981 through Colnaghi in New York using funds from the Libbey Endowment which was a gift from Drummond Libbey. [3]
Blind Man's Bluff (French: Le collin maillard) is a painting by the French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced around 1750 in oil on canvas.It is held by the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, United States, which purchased it with funds from the Libbey Endowment, a gift of the glass manufacturer Edward Libbey who founded the museum in 1901.