Antonio Palomino
Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (165513 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.
Also recorded as Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco · Antonio Acisclo Palomino de Castro y Velasco · Acisclo Antonio Palomino De Castro y Velasco · Acisclo Antonio de Palomino y Velasco
Antonio Palomino

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- Name
- Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco
- Born
- 1655
- Birthplace
- Bujalance, near Córdoba
- Died
- 1726
- Known for
- Painting, writing on art
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- painter · historian · writer · artist
- Movements
- Baroque
- Languages
- Spanish
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Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (165513 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.
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Juan Bautista Simó and Dionís Vidal are recorded as having studied under Antonio Palomino. The recorded working language is Spanish. Luca Giordano is recorded as an influence. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are El museo pictórico y escala óptica. Work by Antonio Palomino is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts of Córdoba, Detroit Institute of Arts and Seattle Art Museum.
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Key facts
• Name — Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco • Birth Name — Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco • Born — 1655 • Birthplace — Bujalance, near Córdoba • Died — 1726 • Known for — Painting, writing on art • Style — Baroque • Patrons — King Charles II
Life
Life
• Illustration — Huida a Egipto ca. 1712 - 1714. Antonio Palomino was born to a respectable family at Bujalance, near Córdoba in 1655. He studied philosophy, theology and law at Córdoba, and had lessons in painting from Juan de Valdés Leal, who visited there in 1672, and afterwards from Juan de Alfaro y Gamez in 1675. After taking minor orders Palomino moved to Madrid in 1678, where he associated with Alfaro, Claudio Coello, and Juan Carreño de Miranda, and executed some indifferent frescoes. He soon afterwards married a lady of rank, and, having been appointed alcalde of the mesta, was himself ennobled; in 1688 he was appointed painter to King Charles II.The artist visited Valencia in 1697 and remained there for three or four years, devoted to painting the ceilings of the Church of Santos Juanes and the Basilica of Our Lady of the Forsaken. Between 1705 and 1715 he spent considerable amounts of time in Salamanca, Granada and Córdoba; in the latter year the first volume of his work on art, El Museo pictórico y escala óptica, appeared in Madrid. He painted the ceiling fresco in the dome of the sacristy of the Cartuja de Granada. After the death of his wife in 1725 Palomino took priest's orders. He died on 13 August 1726.
El Museo pictórico y escala óptica
El Museo pictórico y escala óptica
Palomino's El Museo pictórico y escala óptica first appeared in 1715–24 in a three-volume folio edition. The first two parts, on the theory and practice of the art of painting, have had little influence. The third, subtitled El Parnaso español pintoresco laureado, contains a large amount of important biographical material relating to Spanish artists, which, despite its uneven style, has led to the author being called "the Spanish Vasari". It was partially translated into English in 1739 as An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects; an abridgment of the original (Las Vidas de los pintores y estatuarios españoles) was published in London in 1742, and 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. A modern English translation of the abridgment by Nina Ayala Mallory came out in 1987 from Cambridge University Press.
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Antonio Palomino is recorded as painter, historian, writer and artist. Recognition and collections.
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1655
Antonio Palomino born at Bujalance.
1726
Antonio Palomino died at Madrid.
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Bujalance.
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scholarly publication
- Antonio Palomino en Navalcarnero (Madrid), Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte, 2008
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2008
- Palomino, Antonio (1653–1726), Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture, 2018
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2018
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q604011: Antonio Palomino
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- “Antonio Palomino”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Antonio Palomino en Navalcarnero (Madrid), Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte, 2008Crossref registry
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Palomino, Antonio (1653–1726), Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture, 2018Crossref registry
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His recorded influences include Luca Giordano. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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