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PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO, ACISCLO ANTONIO (1653-1726)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 655 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO, ACISCLO ANTONIO (1653-1726) , Spanish painter and writer on art, was born of good family at Bujalance, near
Cordoba
 , in 1653, and studied philosophy, theology and law at that
capital
 , receiving also lessons in
painting
  from Valdes Leal, who visited
Cordoba
  in 1672, and afterwards from Alfaro (1675). After taking
minor
  orders he removed to Madrid in 1678, where he associated with Alfaro, Coello and Careno, and executed some indifferent frescoes. He soon afterwards married a lady of rank, and, having been appointed alcalde of the mesta, was himself ennobled; and in 1688 he was appointed painter to the king. He visited Valencia in 1697, and remained there three or four years, again devoting himself with but poor success to fresco
painting
 . Between 1705 and 1715 he resided for considerable periods at Salamanca,
Granada
  and Cordoba; in the latter year the first volume of his
work
  on art appeared in Madrid. After the death of his wife in 1725 Palomino took priest's orders. He died on the 13th of August 1726.
His
work
 , in 3 vols. folio (1715-1724), entitled El Museo pictorico y escala optica, consists of three parts, of which the first two, on the theory and practice of the art of painting, are without
interest
  or value; the third, with the subtitle El Parnaso espanol pintoresco laureado, is a mine of important biographical material relating to Spanish artists, which, notwithstanding its faulty style, has procured for the author the not altogether undeserved honour of being called the " Spanish
Vasari
 ." It was partially translated into English in 1739; an abridgment of the
original
  (Las Vidas de los pintores y estatuarios espan"oles) was published in London in 1742, and after-wards appeared in a French
translation
  in 1749. A German version was published at Dresden in 1781, and a reprint of the entire work at Madrid in 1797.


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