El Greco's "View Of Toledo".

As a student of art history, going to a museum is the only way to fully experience a work of art. By looking at a painting or a sculpture in a book or on a slide, one cannot fully experience the work of art. By visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Saturday, March 29th, I was able to look at paintings that dated from centuries old to recent times. One …

…ooler tones of greens, grays, and blues with lunar reflections. The cold color, the harsh light, and the free brush stroke all serve to distinguish him from other painters. El Greco's paintings cannot fall under one particular category (i.e. Renaissance work, mannerism, Baroque). Moreover, his art embodies the end of an age of time when a new era was beginning (16th century art during the Age of Reformation ------►17th Century Baroque Art).