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Lisa Duffy-Zeballos, PhD

Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2008;10(5):364-365.

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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. According to his own account, Palomino met fellow Cordoban painter Juan Valdés Leal, who encouraged him to pursue his artistic career and oversaw his training. Palomino completed his artistic education in Madrid and eventually became one of the leading frescoists working in various religious institutions there. However, he is perhaps best known today as a scholar and theorist; his treatise, El museo pictórico y escala óptica offers a defense of painting as a noble and liberal art. The third volume of the treatise Lives of the Eminent Painters and Sculptors is the most famous and most valuable to scholars of Spanish art. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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