
View of Toledo
1610 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
El Greco moved the cathedral tower off its real site for the sake of the composition and lit the whole city with a green storm.
★ 8.4

El Greco moved the cathedral tower off its real site for the sake of the composition and lit the whole city with a green storm.

Plague empties London, a master flees, and his butler turns the house into a con shop, selling the philosopher's stone to every greedy fool who knocks. Jonson built the swindle like clockwork.

Monteverdi sent it to the Pope hoping for a better job, and it mixes plainchant with writing that would have sounded like theater inside a church.