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Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (17 July 1940 – 5 September 2019) was a Mexican painter, [2] sculptor, and graphic artist.In a career that spanned seven decades, Toledo produced thousands of works of art and became widely regarded as one of Mexico's most important contemporary artists.
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] View and Plan of Toledo is the only other known landscape portrait by El Greco. It is believed to have been completed sometime between 1600 and 1610.
El Greco (marginalia the painter inscribed in his copy of Daniele Barbaro's translation of Vitruvius) [58] His most important architectural achievement was the church and Monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, for which he also executed sculptures and paintings. [ 59 ]
Lacking the favor of the king, El Greco was obliged to remain in Toledo, where he had been received in 1577 as a great painter. [51] According to Hortensio Félix Paravicino, a 17th-century Spanish preacher and poet, "Crete gave him life and the painter's craft, Toledo a better homeland, where through Death he began to achieve eternal life."
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Pedro Salazar de Mendoza owned both View of Toledo and View and Plan of Toledo, which may explain this commonality. [9] On the lower left of View and Plan of Toledo is a reclining allegory of the Tagus River, holding a cornucopia and a vessel pouring water. It references both Toledo's agricultural economy and fertility.
His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist, and the two painted similar subjects. He studied under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. William Stanley Haseltine: More images: 11 June 1835 3 February 1900 American painter and draftsman who was associated with the Hudson River School and Luminism.