Don Antonio Palomino Velasco, Hofmahler Philipp des fünften, Leben aller Spanischen und Fremden Mahler, Bildhauer und Baumeister, welche sich in Spanien durch ihre Werke berühmt gemacht haben, ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit dem Leben des berühmten Raphael Mengs vermehrt.
Dresden,: in der Hilscherschen Buchhandlung, 1781.
Physical Description
367, [1] p.; 160 mm. (Octavo).
Contents
[T.p.] - Dem Leser - [Text] - [Index].
Responsibility Note
The title-page vignette is signed as made by H.J. (or J.C.J?) Friedrich.
References
On Palomino see J.J. Gaya Nuño, Vida de Acisclo Antonio Palomino (1981); F.J. León Tello and M.M.V. Sanz Sanz, La teoria española de la pitura en el siglo XVIII: el tratado de Palomino (1979).
Summary Note
The fresco-painter Palomino de Castro y Velasco is now perhaps better known for his book, Museo pictórico y escala óptica (2 vols., 1715-24); which includes El Parnaso español pintoresco, translated here. Palomino includes anecdotes of several painters whom he knew himself, including Velázquez. The German text translates the 126 biographies of Palomino's original, and adds two more - one of Palomino, the other of Mengs. It is printed in black-letter.
There are no plates. The title-page vignette shows two putti looking at a painting on an easel; the tailpiece at the end of biography no. 127 shows an allegoric female figure in a cloud.
Provenance
The front pastedown carries the armorial bookplate of 'Carolo Morse'.
Binding Note
19th-century half morocco, red cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers blind-stamped with the owner's monogram, 'CM'; spine lettered 'Leben Aller Spanischen Und Fremden Mahler A.P. Velasco', 'R.A.' and 'Dresd. 1781'.
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