Toledo is stuffed to the rafters with treasures that no ordinary pleb has been allowed to set eyes on in hundreds of years. Recently, the tumble-down Colegio de Infantes (a boy’s school) was renovated and reopened as a museum of ancient tapestries and textiles that had been rotting away in one of the Cathedral’s cellars.
I shall spare you the tapestries and ecclesiastical garments, but have a look at this:
Looks like a painting at first glance, doesn’t it? But it’s just a view of the city through the panoramic window of one of the building’s staircases:
Religious art isn’t really my thing, but…
For the most stunning view of Toledo through a window, click here.
Painted sculptures of the saints always creep me out. They look like toys! Either it’s a sculpture (nice white marble or gray plaster will suffice), or it’s a painting, but not both!
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Aw, you should have seen the ivory carvings of M&J in one of the display cabinets…utterly ghoulish and freaky! I still have nightmares…
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I think they look a bit smug, personally….fab view 🙂
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I think they look bemused, but not in a malevolent way 😉
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That first photo really does look like a framed painting. Nice work!
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A happy virgin? Now there’s an oxymoron if ever I heard one!
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That was going to be my comment before I’d even read the post 😉 Beautiful photos Simone!
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Well… remember that she screwed the Big Guy 😉
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Love those pics framed by the windows! And what a jolly Madonna and child.
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Next time you come over, I’ll drag you in there. They have a monstrosity that can’t be done justice in a picture. You’ll see…
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Love that first image of the view!
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I really like how you take everyday beauty and make it look so magnificent. If you’re eating cake and doing that..I like the way you live!
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Cake… that’s what’s missing from my life right this minute 😉
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We had pie this evening..Zwiebel Kuechen! Does that count?
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I take it you mean Zwiebelkuchen…? No, that doesn’t count, that’s a savoury thing! 😉
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Sorry for the anglicization…yes, more my style..as for my wife…:)
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The view of the city is gorgeous and unexpected. Love the line … I guess I wasn’t expecting such an old “medievel” looking city. Very beautiful!
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they do look content!! too damn funny this 😉 love the photos!
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Fantastic pics!!!
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Love the panoramic windows! Really look like paintings.
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Oh love the window ‘framed paintings’! There is something oddly haunting about that doorway though… is that a ghostly apparition I see? Or just a reflection of the photographer? Or my eyes playing tricks (we did have to survive TWO wedding receptions last night after all!?!)
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Two? No wonder you’re seeing double 😉
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Yeah with my partner’s 84 year old mother too!
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I guess I’m the only one who would have liked a look at the tapestries – my dad sold cloth (“rag peddler” – and not the newspaper kind) – what can I say? Ah well – a Madonna and Child that do look extra cheery, a great fake-out painting – and a link I’m really happy I clicked on. What Gorgeous Photos!
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The tapestries were impressive. Very interesting how the colours had held up over the centuries… in some of them, the blue was extraordinarily luminous while all the other pigments had faded considerably.
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I was stunned by the rooftop photo, then charmed by the virgin! She resembles real girls I have known, cornfed types from Iowa. The kid isn’t as realistic but I like his smile. They both look as though they are about to eat cake 🙂
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Cornfed types from Iowa, LOL! Pricesless 😉
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I think the virgin looks a biut smug. Better than her usual miserable expression though.
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I love this, it’s a view of Toledo I’ve never seen x
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Thanks 😉 I keep finding new perspectives, it’s just a matter of gaining access to the buildings. Many of them are private houses/flats, of course.
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I do so like the look of this city 🙂
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Next time you’re in Madrid, be sure to pay us a visit 🙂
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well it really does look like a painting – and while I also do not care for “religious art” – you reminded me that there can be value in it – and I do like the gold in that content shot. 🙂 ❤
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They do look happy. Valium happy.
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