[Cloisters of the Church of Saint John of the Kings, Toledo, Spain]
Saint John of the Kings was one of the best examples of High Gothic architecture in Spain. When Clifford photographed the church and its adjoining cloister, they were in need of repair because of damage incurred in the Napoleonic Wars. As a native Englishman, Clifford was imbued with Romantic notions of ruins--of their symbolic evidence of the grandeur of human aspirations and of their inevitably temporal nature.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Cloisters of the Church of Saint John of the Kings, Toledo, Spain]
- Artist: Charles Clifford (Welsh, 1819–1863)
- Date: ca. 1858
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: 41.6 x 31.7 cm. (16 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 1989
- Object Number: 1989.1047
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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