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
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The Alchemist
1610 · 530 pages
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.
★ 6.1
Vespro della Beate Vergine
1610
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.
★ 3.9