El museo pictórico y escala óptica
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El museo pictórico y escala óptica is a significant work by Spanish painter and scholar Antonio Palomino. Published between 1715 and 1724, this treatise is divided into two volumes. The first volume delves into the theory and practice of painting, while the second volume compiles biographies of notable Spanish painters and sculptors, as well as foreign artists who worked in Spain.1
Modeled after Giorgio Vasari's biographies of Italian artists, Palomino's work is an invaluable resource for understanding Spanish painting in the 16th and 17th centuries. Palomino himself was a painter and the last court painter to King Charles II of Spain.1
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