17thc Landscapes: El Greco & Van Ruisdael

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...B. Bryan Babcock Inc., March 2001 Introduction Throughout Europe, artists were once more relating to the bounty that they considered home. This included their physical home as well as their spiritual home. The Protestant Reformation had made inroads in the Mother Church that were both painful and deep. The Roman Catholic Church then put much of its resources behind El Greco View of Toledo c. 1597 recovering their lost ground in Spain, particularly in the the city of Toledo, the home of the Archbishop. We might say that El Greco was as the right place at the right time, as his moody and dramatic work, reflected the spiritual turmoil that was the Catholic Counter-Reformation of the second half of the century. Catholic Spain turned its eyes upward to reclaim the...

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