Diálogos De La Pintura, Por Vicente Carducho. - Segunda Edicion Que Se Hace De Este Libro, Fielmente Copiada De La Primera Que Dió Á La Estampa Su Autor En 1633, En La Que Se Reproducen En Fac-Simil Todas Sus Laminas: Dirígela D.G. Cruzada Villaamil. -
Madrid: 1865, Imprenta De Manuel Galiano, Plaza de los Ministerios, 2.
Physical Description
541, [3] p., [11] pl.; 224 mm. (Octavo.)
Series Title
Biblioteca De El Arte En España
Contents
[Half-t., [2] pl., t.p., dedic.] - Aprobacion [1632] - Licencia Del Ordinario [1632] - Aprobacion [1632] - Suma Del Privilegio [1632] - [Poems] - Á Los Lectores - [Text, and 8 plates] - Memorial Informatorio Por Los Pintores ... [and one pl.] - Sentencia Que Dió El Real Consejo de Hacienda En Revista En 11 De Enero De 1633 - Tabla De Las Cosas Notables Que Se Contienen En Este Libro - [Colophon, M.DC.XXXIIII] - Plantilla Para La Colocacion De Las Láminas.
Responsibility Note
The portrait of Vicente Carducho is unsigned. All other plates are signed as made by 'frco. fer3' or 'frco. lop3' [i.e. Francisco Fernández and Francisco López].
The edition is dedicated by G. Cruzada Villaamil to Manuel Remon Zarco del Valle.
References
Artists' techniques in Golden Age Spain: six treatises in translation, tr. Z. Veliz (1986); V. Carducho, Diálogos de la pintura, ed. F. Calvo Serraller (1979); J. Gállego, El pintor de artesano a artista (1976); G. Kubler, 'Vicente Carducho's allegories of painting', in A. Bull., 17:4 (1965), p.439-45; A. Fumagalli, 'I trattatisti e gli artisti italiani en un trattato d'arte spagnolo', in The Athenaeum, 2 (1914), p.292-309.
Summary Note
The half-title reads, 'Biblioteca De El Arte En España.' The work was first published in 1633.
In these dialogues between a painter and his pupil Carducho argues for the status of painting as a liberal art, and surveys the history and methods of the most celebrated painters. His theory derives from G.P. Lomazzo, F. Zuccaro and other Italian writers. In the eighth dialogue Carducho describes paintings in contemporary collections in Madrid.
The Diálogos are followed by a Memorial Informatorio Por Los Pintores En El Pleito Que Tratan El Sr. Fiscal De S.M. En El Real Consejo Hacienda Sobre La Exencion Del Arte De La Pintura, first published in 1629, in which Lope de Vega and others argue for the exemption of painters from commercial taxes on the grounds that they are practitioners of a liberal art.
The first plate reproduces the original title-plate. The second shows a portrait of Vicente Carducho. The third to the eleventh reproduce plates of the first edition showing allegories of painting.
Provenance
The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'S:A:H', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
Binding Note
19th-century half brown morocco, brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Dialogos De La Pintura Carducho', 'R.A.' and 'Madrid 1865'.
Subject
Painting - Arts - Painters - Artists - Europe - Spain - History
Paintings - Collections - Spain - Madrid - 17th century
Treatises - Dialogues - Art criticism - Art history - Spain - 17th century
Pictorial works - Spain - 19th century