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Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (1655 – 13 April 1726) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of El Museo pictórico y escala óptica, which contains a large amount of important biographical material on Spanish artists.
Antonio Palomino. (d. 1655) Quick Reference. ( bapt. Bujalance, nr. Córdoba, 1 Dec. 1655; d Madrid, 12 Aug. 1726). Spanish painter and writer on art, active mainly in Madrid, where in 1688 Charles II (see Habsburg) appointed him one of his court painters.
Antonio Aciselo Palomino De Castro Y Velasco. Born: 1655, Bujalance, Spain. Died: August 1726, Madrid (aged 71) Notable Works: “El museo pictórico y escala óptica”. Subjects Of Study: Baroque art and architecture.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Antonio Palomino based his judgement of the artist’s work on it, describing Maíno as one of the most eminent painters of his day, as can be seen in his works for the said house [San Pedro Mártir], particularly the high altar of that church with the four canvases of the Cuatro Pascuas [four feasts], in which there are excellent nudes and ...
Sep 1, 2008 · Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (1655-1726) was one of the most successful and learned artists of the late Golden Age in Spain. Raised in Cordoba, Palomino originally studied theology and even took minor religious orders before beginning his career as a religious painter.
- Lisa Duffy-Zeballos
- 2008
The Lives of Velázquez brings together two seminal early accounts of the great seventeenth-century Spanish painter (ca. 1599–1660). These texts, written by his contemporaries Francisco Pacheco and...
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Antonio Palomino's biography contains details of Velázquez's life but also tackles the wider aesthetic debate engendered by his subject matter and style....
