GLI ANEDDOTI DI ARTISTA NE EL PARNASO ESPAÑOL, PINTORESCO Y LAUREADO DI ANTONIO PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO

Abstract

Abstract
Between 1715 and 1724, the Andalusian painter Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco
(1655 -1726) wrote the four parts of El Museo Pictórico y Escala Óptica, a work of
great importance for the understanding of Spanish Baroque painting. The third part
of the work, the best known and that had a greater diffusion, collects the biographies
of Spanish and foreign artists active in the Iberian peninsula from 1500 to 1714. This
contribution addresses the anecdotes of El Parnaso español as attributable to the topos
of the divine creator, declined in multiple ways and connected with other traditional
models that originate from it.