托莱多的景观与地图

This is El Greco near the end of his life, around 1610, painting the city that had adopted him some 30 years earlier. It is part townscape, part map. A young man, thought to be the painter's son Jorge Manuel, kneels in the corner holding out a street plan of Toledo. What makes it strange is the building floating on a cloud at the top. That is the Tavera hospital, and El Greco lifted it into the sky on purpose. He even added a written note inside the picture explaining that the hospital stood where it would have blocked the view of the city gate, so he moved it out of the way. A reclining river god below stands for the Tagus that loops around the town.